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…

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

In this brave new world of the Anthropocene – a whole epoch defined solely by humanity’s ability to crap in its own…

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…

In theory, it shouldn’t matter where authors of scientific papers get their research funding, a longtime journal editor once told me. Papers…

Think for a moment, if you will, of all the chemicals that you conscientiously and unconsciously are exposed to everyday. Banal, daily-life…

Millions of people worldwide suffer from progressive degeneration of the eye’s photoreceptors (the light-sensing cells), leading ultimately to blindness. A recent therapeutic…

In recent decades the burden of malaria has greatly decreased. This is the result of both successful public health initiatives and widespread…