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Today we are happy to announce that PLoS ONE has published its 20,000th manuscript! We could not have gotten here today without the help and support of our authors, reviewers, academic editors, and the OA
The beach in Mayumba National Park, located on the coast of Gabon, has one of the highest nesting densities of sea turtles in Africa. Along with the leatherback turtle, Mayumba is also a nesting ground
Today is World Malaria Day —a time to reflect upon and commemorate the global efforts to fight this deadly mosquito-born disease found throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Given the day, we
In this media digest: your flaws are my pain, increased gold mining threatens the Peruvian Amazon and more. The manuscript, Your Flaws Are My Pain: Linking Empathy To Vicarious Embarrassment, by Soren Krach et al.,
We are always happy to hear when scientists find creative ways to reuse PLoS ONE content, and we are pleased to share with you another example of how researchers are using open access to help
Today is World TB Day. The following post was written by one of PLoS Medicine’s Senior Editors, Jocalyn Clark. Jocalyn’s post was published yesterday on the Speaking of Medicine blog and today we are sharing
Did you know that mice can sing? We can’t hear them, unfortunately – they’re a few octaves out of our range, and in fact even out of the range of many bat calls but they
How do you mend a broken heart? When it comes to love, this is a difficult question to answer. However, when it comes to heart failure, a leading cause of death worldwide, scientists are finding
Halloween is upon us and in this spirit we’ve asked a few researchers to share with us their most interesting or fearsome moments about their discoveries published in PLoS ONE. Reader beware: you’ll encounter these scientists’ first-hand
As flu season approaches, we thought it would be interesting to spotlight the authors of a recently published PLoS ONE paper entitled, Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks. The authors James H. Fowler, a