Prashanth Suravajhala, a biologist and bioinformatician, stared down the Brucella and human genomes and wondered whether the vast swaths of non-coding regions…
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post T-Shirt Design Winner Prashanth Suravajhala Contemplates Hypothetical ProteinsRead more
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post The neuroscience of relationships: toward naturalistic interactive neuroimagingRead more
By Erin Yeagle Most of us don’t think twice about the fact that experimental conditions in neuroscience and psychology rarely mirror the…
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post How Psychology and Neuroscience Get Sex and Gender Wrong : Neuroskeptic Goes In-Depth with Cordelia FineRead more
Has neuroscience proven that men and women are born different? Or are male brains and female brains mostly similar? Is there even…
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Dinosaurs Assembling the Aquilops PaperRead more
In my previous post, I introduced Aquilops, a new little dinosaur from ancient Montana, and talked about some of the science behind establishing…
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Dinosaurs Aquilops, the little dinosaur that couldRead more
Today, several colleagues and I named a really cute little dinosaur—Aquilops americanus. At around 106 million years old, Aquilops turns out to be…
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Open Access Lungfish brains ain’t boringRead more
I tend to think of fish brains as fairly unremarkable. Too simple relative to mammal brains, too un-dinosaur-y relative to dinosaur brains…
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Dinosaurs Give the Gift of Paleoart!Read more
One of my favorite things about the Internet Age, among many favorite things, is the way in which it facilitates access to…
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post #PLOSNeuro #SfN14 Highlights: Food for Thought: Tastes, Aromas, and Memories of Food, Bryan Voltaggio, by Lina JamisRead more
By Lina Jamis Bryan Voltaggio is not a neuroscientist. At least not by traditional standards. But his intimate understanding of the way…
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post Moving Beyond Left Brain, Right Brain, Neuroskeptic goes in-depth with Michael CorballisRead more
By Neuroskeptic “Are you a left brain or a right brain person?” The idea that the logical left half of our brain…
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post Ethics, Morals and Regulation: Proactive Thinking at iGEMRead more
One of the primary points of emphasis at iGEM is encouraging teams to think about the consequences of their science. As part…
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post From the Desk of Aakriti Jain, New Community EditorRead more
Hey Everyone! My name is Aakriti Jain and I am the newest Community Editor for the PLOS Synthetic Biology site. I am…
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post Nothing spooky about decoding telepathy: a lesson in the value of open science by Micah AllenRead more
Telepathy seems to be all the rage among neuroscientists these days. Here, Micah Allen, from University College London, who blogs and tweets…