To understand a group of organisms, you have to start at their very beginning. The name “archosaur” translates as “ruling reptiles”, and…
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Interview Getting in the Head of Euparkeria: An Interview with Gabriela Sobral
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Synthetic Biology From Plough to Pipette – Tools for Crop Development
In part 2 of our plant synthetic biology series we teamed up with Cameron Tout of the Legume Laboratory blog to introduce some of…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: July 8, 2016
Featured Image: U.S. Forest Service paleontologist Bruce Schumacher jacketing a mammoth tibia discovered in July 2015 in San Isabel National Forest. Image courtesy…
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Assessment Author Credit: PLOS and CRediT Update
Our January update on author credit focused on how PLOS was moving forward with the use of ORCID identifiers (iDs) for researcher…
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Conservation Bats and Wind Turbines
In laudable efforts to counter climate change, many countries around the world are turning to renewable energy sources, such as wind. Wind…
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Dinosaurs Chew on this! Mammal-like mastication for the dinosaur Leptoceratops
We all chew, but hardly ever think about it. Even a moment’s consideration, though, reveals how complex of a process it actually…
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Assessment Measuring Up: Impact Factors Do Not Reflect Article Citation Rates
This special blog post is co-authored by PLOS Executive Editor Véronique Kiermer, Université de Montréal Associate Professor of Information Science Vincent…
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Synthetic Biology “Building with Biology” Synbio Outreach
Recently I got to volunteer again at a “Building with Biology” event at the Museum of Science in Boston. Last year was the…
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PLOS ONE Finding the First Fungus Farmers
The development of farming was a key milestone in human history, but as a species we were quite late to the party. Insects got…
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Basic Neuroscience PLOS Neuro Community meets face-to-face at #FENS2016 in Copenhagen!
Updated July 6: As FENS draws to a close, we thank everyone who came by our booth for literature, talked with our editors…
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Biodiversity Is Intentional Extinction Ever the Right Thing?
Consider this. It may be possible to eliminate some of the world’s deadliest diseases, save 2.7 million human lives per year, and…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: July 1, 2016
Featured Image: Leonardo the hadrosaur. Image courtesy Red Rocket Photography/The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis/Wikimedia Common (CC BY-SA 3.0) Papers (all Open Access): Eutherians…