Author Interview: Justin Adams on a New Digital Fossil Archive (Part 2)

baboon-495x320False-color image of the fossil baboon Papio angusticeps, from Adams et al. 2015. CC-BY. Yesterday, we started an interview with Justin Adams, senior author on a recent PLOS ONE paper discussing a newly available set of 3D

Could the Ebola epidemic end this year?

Although the Ebola epidemic is still raging in west Africa, US and European buzz about the disease spiked briefly and then all but disappeared, according to Google search data published in Vox’s in-depth report. Liberia’s situation is the most promising, … Continue reading »

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Measuring the success of an online bioinformatics resource

Like many other journals, PLOS Computational Biology aims to publish research that helps to further the field and develop the community that the journal serves. From time to time, however, we publish a paper that makes a significant impact not … Continue reading »

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An Interview with Pascale Cossart

Charles Ebikeme interviews Pascale Cossart of the Institut Pasteur on the occasion of her receipt of the Women in Science Award at FEBS-EMBO 2014. On September 2, Pascale Cossart received the Women in Science Award at the Federation of European … Continue reading »

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Asifa Majid on language and olfaction

When I first ran across Asifa Majid’s  article with Ewelina Wnuk in Cognition, about how speakers of Maniq, a language indigenous to southern Thailand, have a vocabulary for talking about smell, I was taken aback. In anthropology, especially since …

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Is it safe to exercise when pregnant?

The short answer  is yes – it is absolutely safe to exercise while pregnant.  It is also very beneficial.  There are a few situations that you want to avoid (e.g. maximal exercise, overheating, etc), although I can’t imagine many pregnant …

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New Zealand & Mozambique Get Top Grades on Physical Activity Report Cards

Today is the first full day at the Global Summit on the Physical Activity of Children, and it began with the unveiling of Physical Activity Report Cards from 15 different countries.  Canada has been releasing an annual Report Card on …

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