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Media Coverage of the Marine Biodiversity and Biogeography Collection

The newest PLoS ONE Collection, Marine Biodiversity and Biogeography – Regional Comparisons of Global Issues, has attracted huge global coverage in the media. Here, we (Jen Laloup and I, but WordPress...

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Worth a Thousand Words

The featured image for this week comes from a recently published paper called 110 Years of Avipoxvirus in the Galapagos Islands.  The research, which was led by Patricia Parker, used avian museum...

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PLOS ONE Launches Synthetic Biology Collection

Today PLOS ONE is happy to announce the launch of the Synthetic Biology Collection, including over 50 papers published in the last six years that illustrate the many facets of this dynamically evolving...

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Announcing the Altmetrics Collection

With the increasing use of Web 2.0 tools in scientific publishing and discussion, there is growing concern that scholarly output may be swamping traditional mechanisms for filtering scientific impact,...

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Meet Vectidraco, a European pterosaur the size of a crow

Fossil records show that pterosaurs of all sizes and shapes flew through the skies of China and Central Asia about 145 to 66 million years ago. A new species of small pterosaurs described in a PLOS ONE...

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Announcing the PLOS Text Mining Collection

Post authored by Casey M. Bergman, Lawrence E. Hunter, Andrey Rzhetsky Text Mining is an interdisciplinary field combining techniques from linguistics, computer science and statistics to build tools...

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Announcing the Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection

Post authored by Collection Curator Ben Bond-Lamberty  The ecological impacts of climate change are broad and diverse, and include alterations to species’ range limits, plant phenology and growth,...

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PLOS Research Predicts Climate Change “Winners and Losers”: Slide Show

A glimpse out the window shows the effects of climate change on the weather – but how will the rising seas and fluctuating weather patterns impact plant and animal populations? Biologists and...

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Climate Change: Closing the Knowledge Gap by Opening Access to Research

In this guest post, Sara Lindenfeld, a former PLOS employee on her way back to school for environmental graduate studies at Duke University, discusses the disconnect between public perceptions of...

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The New PLOS ONE Collection on “Sauropod Gigantism – A Cross-Disciplinary...

The exceptional gigantism of sauropod dinosaurs has long been recognized as an important stage in the evolution of vertebrates, the presence of which raises questions as to why no other land-based...

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James Hansen and Colleagues Offer Evidence for a Disruptive Call to Action

The article PLOS ONE publishes today from James Hansen and colleagues, “Assessing Dangerous Climate Change:  Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and...

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The “Must Downloads” of PLOS ONE: A 10 Year Anniversary Collection

0000-0002-8715-2896 The “Must Downloads” of PLOS ONE: A 10 Year Anniversary Collection   post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above In the new PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary Collection: The Must Downloads,...

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Negative Results: A Crucial Piece of the Scientific Puzzle

0000-0002-8715-2896 Negative Results: A Crucial Piece of the Scientific Puzzle   post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above Scientific advance relies on transparency, rigour and reproducibility. At PLOS...

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PLOS Medicine Special Issue: Climate change and health

0000-0002-8715-2896 PLOS Medicine Special Issue: Climate change and health   post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above The editors of PLOS Medicine announce a forthcoming special issue devoted to the...

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Human Trafficking, Exploitation, and Health: a new PLOS Collection

0000-0002-8715-2896 Human Trafficking, Exploitation, and Health: a new PLOS Collection   Posted November 22, 2017 by PLOS Medicine in Collections, General post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above PLOS...

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malERA Refresh collection: an updated research agenda for malaria elimination...

0000-0002-8715-2896 malERA Refresh collection: an updated research agenda for malaria elimination and eradication   Posted November 30, 2017 by Amy Ross in Collections, malaria post-info AddThis...

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Editorial Board Favorites: the final collection from our 10 Year Anniversary...

0000-0002-8715-2896 Editorial Board Favorites: the final collection from our 10 Year Anniversary series!   Posted January 22, 2018 by post-info To cap off the PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary collection...

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Call for Papers: Open quantum computation and simulation

0000-0002-8715-2896 Call for Papers: Open quantum computation and simulation   post-info PLOS ONE is calling for papers that promote the principles and values of open science to form a Collection in...

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Week 1 of the PLOS Medicine Special Issue on Cardiovascular Disease and...

0000-0002-8715-2896 Week 1 of the PLOS Medicine Special Issue on Cardiovascular Disease and Multimorbidity   post-info Senior Editor Amy Ross discusses the content published in week 1 of the PLOS...

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Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo ends

  Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo ends post-info PLOS will no longer actively triage Ebola content for expedited review, but will continue to update the Ebola Channel with new content....

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