For the first time in its 177-year history, the American Statistical Association (ASA) has voiced its opinion and made specific recommendations for…

Perhaps when you think of bacterial communities you think of a flask full of rapidly dividing E. coli. But in non-lab conditions…

Welcome to the second edition of the ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) blog, where we highlight recent PLOS Biology articles that…

At what point is it no longer acceptable for the richest nations in the world to let millions of children in the…

Image Credit: Matthew Clay, Sherwood Lab, Duke University Author: David R. Sherwood is an associate professor at the Department of Biology, Duke University…

Butterflies’ special place in human culture stems from the fact that they have used their wings not only for flight, but as…

For many people, the recent festive period was more about spending time with family, eating too much and being generally merry…

By 2016, most scientifically literate people have come to accept the inevitability of climate change. But what’s much less clear is how…

Scientific research, often portrayed as the acme of human rigorous thought, is actually an activity that’s grown rather organically over the centuries…

Just how awesome are bats? It’s easy to forget that one in five species of mammal on this planet have wings capable…

Header Image Credit: Maesani et al. Here are our highlights from November’s PLOS Computational Biology: Finding New Order in Biological Functions from the…

Authors: Niklaus Zemp is a Post Doctoral Researcher and Alex Widmer is a Professor, both based at the Institute of Integrative Biology…