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Fractaltastic Evolution
One of the iconic metaphors of evolution is that of the ‘tree of life’ – it is the image we all have for how species relate to each other in evolutionary time. In a perspective article last year, David...
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Naïve, Crazy Idealists Make Good
Ten years ago this month, PLOS ventured into the world of scientific publishing by launching its flagship journal, PLOS Biology. When Harold Varmus, Pat Brown, and Michael Eisen founded PLOS in 2000,...
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How Do Flies Fly?
It’s time to give some thought to how a blowfly, or actually any flight-capable creature flies. We circle back to physics here–drag, lift, thrust, and the weight of the creature as key factors....
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Gut Bacteria – The Movie
The growing interest in the trillions of bacteria that live inside our guts is underlined by the >10,000 people who read the recent PLOS Biology essay by Diana Bojanova and Seth Bordenstein – “Fecal
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Protocols: The Devil is in the Details
0000-0002-2557-6204Hopefully you know already about the PLOS partnership with protocols.io; if you don’t, PLOS announced this almost exactly a month ago. What we didn’t tell you then was that PLOS...
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