This blog post was prepared by PLOS One Senior Editor Joanna Tindall. The Anthropocene is a geological epoch defined by human actions…

More than 70 million specimens from 100 UK collections will be put into an online digital museum

Crime remains a persistent socio-economic challenge in South Africa, where the incarceration of petty offenders often exacerbates criminal behaviour. Empirical evidence suggests custodial sentencing…

How does parenthood relate to academic productivity when we look beyond publication counts? We synthesize evidence from five small-scale meta-analyses and present original survey data from academic…

Nature - AI predictions could help with pandemic preparedness, but they will need experimental confirmation.

Over the last century, the integrity of streams and lakes in the U.S. has deteriorated. Our river networks are fragmented by thousands of dams hindering movement and adaptation. Water diversions,…

Citizen science photographs contain a vast and underused record of species interactions. This Community Page introduces Who Eats Whom, an interactive, searchable food web created from photographs uplo...

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Objectives Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by systemic inflammation, intermittent hypoxemia, and immune dysregulation and has been associated with increased susceptibility to viral…

Social isolation has long been recognized as a determinant of poor health, particularly in older adults. However, its effects on young people remain underexplored.

Nature examines whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown.

The diversity of cultivated bananas remains partially unknown, whereas cultivars with suitable adaptive traits could address the drastically increasing biotic and abiotic constraints on banana product...

This blog post was prepared by PLOS One Associate Editor Katherine Kokkinias. As telemedicine becomes more ubiquitous in healthcare across the globe…

By making and burning their own papyrus, researchers have come up with a method that might help to read glowing text from unopened scrolls from Herculaneum.

North Atlantic right whales change their feeding depth after sunset, bringing them closer to ships when crews are least able to see them.

Inhibitory control—or the suppression of an impulsive, or prepotent, response in favor of a less obvious, but more effective behavior—is an important aspect of executive function, decision-making,…

The discovery that people living at the great Ancestral Pueblo site of Chaco Canyon consumed cacao changed our understanding of the history of chocolate by demonstrating that networks moving cacao…

Disparities in income and wealth are growing. A scientific assessment process can give governments the information they need to tackle them.

Troodontid theropod dinosaurs from the Campanian of western North America have historically been known from fragmentary remains. This limited material has made understanding the biology and taxonomy…

Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce original results, answer new scientific queries and collaborate to generate novel insights.

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Much has been written about the animal economy of medieval England (CE 450–1500) but interpretation of the zooarchaeological record has been held back by reliance on artificial periodisation. This…

Sandra Carvalho is an Assistant Professor with habilitation in Psychology and Neuroscience in the Department of Basic Psychology at the School of…

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In humans, inhibitory control is important for problem solving. It may be for elephants, too.

A PLOS One study found more than 3,000 science paper titles borrowing Beatles lyrics, including the AI paper behind ChatGPT.

At least 3200 scientific publications refer to the Fab Four’s music—by far the most of any top-selling artist

Background The 21st Century Cures Act (2017) was enacted during a period of evolving FDA flexibility in evidentiary standards for drug approval. To examine trends before and after implementation, we…

The acclaimed writer will argue for the urgent need to re-imagine humanity’s relationship with the living world, in order to shape a more hopeful future on Earth

A national blue plaque has been unveiled for palaeontologist Dorothea Bate at the Natural History Museum in Tring.