A dish clatters to the floor, and you spin around to view the damage. A friend calls out from beyond your line…
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Topic Focus (Don’t) Watch that Mouth: Listen Up by Looking Away
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Author Spotlight Plant Roots May Lie Beneath Namibian Fairy Circles
Circles of barren land, ranging from one to several feet in diameter, appear and disappear spontaneously in Namibian grasslands. The origins of…
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Aggregators Coffee Plants Don’t Like It Hot
Guest blogger Atreyee Bhattacharya is a science correspondent and climate scientist, currently a research affiliate at the Department of Earth and Planetary…
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Collections 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&rsquo…
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Topic Focus Putting the brakes on blood clots
Whether you get a paper cut or have a bad accident, our bodies respond with a near-universal command: when bleeding, clot. Within…
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Author Spotlight Contextualizing the Hobbits
18,000 years ago, the remote Indonesian island of Flores was home to a population of tiny humans. They stood only about 3.5…
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Topic Focus Malaria, Tuberculosis Caused Death on the Ancient Nile
Southwest of Cairo, the Nile branches into a network of canals that feed Fayum, a fertile agricultural basin that was a…
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Conferences Moms and babies respond to childbirth with different stress hormones
A quick internet search reveals that many women rank giving birth as one of the most painful human experiences. Though pain can…
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Topic Focus Hairy, Sticky Leg Pads are In: How Different Spiders Hunt
Spiders are everywhere (Arachnophobes, stop reading now). They’re among the most successful predators on earth today and colonize nearly every terrestrial habitat…
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Topic Focus Opportunistic pathogens evolve mostly harmlessly in healthy humans
Humans interact with bacteria almost every minute of our lives. Of the millions of these interactions, only a handful result in disease…
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Author Spotlight Balancing nutrient diets determines how ecosystems age
From rainforests to rocky glaciers, the life of an ecosystem is rooted in the balance of nutrients in its soil. Shifting levels…
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Aggregators 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…