How do you like your fish? Phylogenised!

By Roli Roberts
Posted: May 13, 2013
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The bony fishes are one of the success stories of life on planet earth, diverse in shape and habit, and thriving in almost every body of water on the globe. Estimates of the number of distinct species tend to be …

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Can we trust climate models?

By Tamsin Edwards
Posted: May 13, 2013
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I’m a climate modeller. Why would I invite a climate sceptic to the Cheltenham Science Festival to have a public discussion called “Can we trust climate models?” Why would I complicate things further by inviting a UK government adviser?

Ever …

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Can a museum object be more like a dog?

By Cristina Russo
Posted: May 13, 2013
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About a month ago I visited the Adam Lister art gallery. In one art exhibit, an artist had placed a gumball machine filled with what he called “tiny art”. The machine had a sign that encouraged people to play, by …

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Neurocriminology, Meet Human Development

By daniel.lende
Posted: May 12, 2013
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Fence and GateThese are two lines of research that will hopefully increasingly merge… Neurocriminologist Adrian Raine’s new book The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime presents a biological approach to criminal behavior, but a biology that increasingly recognizes developmental and …

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Happy Mother’s Day from EveryONE!

By Krista Hoff
Posted: May 10, 2013
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motherandchildsculptureHaving children changes your life, your priorities and, for mothers, possibly even your brain. In pregnant women, fetal cells – which are genetically distinct from the mother’s cells – can actually establish themselves in the mother, creating a phenomenon called …

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Our Inner Voices

By daniel.lende
Posted: May 10, 2013
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Mulholland Our Inner VoicesA pastiche of a post, putting together ideas and research on inner voices:

-How to document the conversations we carry on with ourselves most everyday (in the West at least)
-The importance of inner voices for rebuilding our notion of …

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Two new citizen science apps to measure light pollution

By Nicholas Fordes
Posted: May 10, 2013
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Having lived for several years in the Inland Northwest, I can say that one of the many natural beauties of the area is the night sky. On a clear night, the number of bright stars is truly phenomenal. Cap the …

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PLOS NTDs Launches New Collection Focusing on Strongyloides

By Matt Lopez
Posted: May 9, 2013
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases announces the launch of a new collection focusing on the human parasitic roundworm Strongyloides stercoralis (S. stercoralis). Containing nearly twenty research articles by nematode experts from across the globe, the collection kicks off with …

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This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: Dengue and Pregnancy; Protection Against B. pseudomallei; Bacterial VOC Diagnostics; H1N1 Antigenic Change; and more

By Matt Lopez
Posted: May 9, 2013
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New articles publishing in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases:

The occurrence of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever has increased in Brazil, in part due to the simultaneous circulation of DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-3, with severe outcomes being reported with some …

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Possible futures

By Tamsin Edwards
Posted: May 9, 2013
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This is the final part of a series of introductory posts about the principles of climate modelling. Others in the series: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

The final big question in this series is:

How do we predict

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