Last week saw the publication of PLoS ONE’s 1,500th paper since our launch in December 2006, although there was no time for…

Open Students is a new blog for students about open access to research. It is run by Gavin Baker (who also recently…

Many users have seen the "undergoing routine site maintenance" page splashed across their browsers a bit too often recently when browsing to…

Last week, we made a little upgrade to the PLoS Blog. If you look at any individual post you will see that…

Back in September, PLoS ONE published an article (Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit), by Kimberley Hockings and colleagues, who found that male chimpanzees…

Following the recent blog that related a PLoS paper to end of year excess, this week a PLoS Medicine study evaluating the…

Members of the Rodriguez lab and the Otero lab, both of Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante (CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernandez. Spain) have just…

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free,” wrote Charles Dickens in Bleak House. So too are the two papers…

For those who celebrated the holiday season and the publication of a high quality sequence of the Pinot Noir grape genome in…

David Eagleman’s paper “Does Time Really Slow Down during a Frightening Event?” published in PLoS ONE this week picked up quite a…

The Zotero developers announced that Zotero is now compatible with all PLoS journals. The new Zotero translator allows users to capture metadata…

Last week’s PLoS ONE article Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur has received a huge and positive response by the news media…