CitizenSciCitizen Science for the ClassroomStudents can take on the role of phytoplankton biologists by helping NOAA scientists track and monitor species of plankton in their local waters. Teachers, check out these projects!
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 Speaking of MedicinePLOS Offers Cross Journal Resources on EbolaTo expedite access to the latest research, articles from all seven PLOS journals and PLOS Currents have been combined in a new collection. PLOS Medicine and Biology Editorial Director Ginny Barbour discusses why and how the research is being made available.  PLOS Neuro Community SiteA Social Visit With Hallucinated VoicesWhat is happening in the brain when someone with schizophrenia hears voices? Searching for the neural basis of auditory hallucinations, a new post by Mindhacks blogger Vaughan Bell on htttp://neuro.plos.org  PLOS BiologueEpstein-Barr, a Smoking Gun?New this week in PLOS Biology, Bill Sugden examines the evidence that links this ubiquitous human pathogen to cancer and multiple sclerosis. |
There are many absurdities in society that we overlook or come to accept. For me, there are few though more absurd than our relationship with alcohol. Addictive, harmful, carcinogenic and associated with a raft of social, economic and health consequences …
The PLOS Pathogens team reflects on their most widely shared article and the benefits and pitfalls of sharing science research on social media.
Social media has taken the science world by storm. Or maybe it’s the other way around; but …
“A new cause of osteoarthritis identified by research on a rare disease,” ran the headline of a news release a few weeks ago. I was drawn to “rare disease,” even though I actually have osteoarthritis. When I read “alkaptonuria,” …
Here is our selection of PLOS Computational Biology highlights for August.
During the embryonic development of multicellular organisms, millions of cells cooperatively build structured tissues, organs and whole organisms, a process called morphogenesis. It is still not entirely understood …
In November 2013, PLOS Medicine and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) called for submissions to the third year of the MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health. Today we announce an exciting new update to the Year 3 Collection…
When I first ran across Asifa Majid’s article with Ewelina Wnuk in Cognition, about how speakers of Maniq, a language indigenous to southern Thailand, have a vocabulary for talking about smell, I was taken aback. In anthropology, especially since …
In PLOS Biology this week you can read about citizen science oceanography, de-differentiation and drug resistance in cancer, fine-tuning of DNA repair and action potential initiation in cortical neurons.
Crowdsourcing the Collection of Oceanographic Data
In a new Community …
Today’s post comes from Jonathan Kurka and Matthew Buman, discussing a recent paper that they published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Below is a video of Dr Buman explaining the main findings of his study, which was recorded …
Here are 10 citizen science projects you can use in your classroom. SciStarter’s Karen McDonald aligned them with the new Next Generation Science Standards!
Click the title of each project to link to detailed …
Researchers in Antarctica on a mission to locate penguin colonies found two groups of seabirds, thanks to a little help from satellites, helicopters, and the detection of more “primitive” evidence: penguin poop.
Our favorite tuxedo-clad Emperor penguin is native to …
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