How and why to date a dinosaur

0000-0002-8715-2896Source: How and why to date a dinosaur You might think dating dinosaurs would be an easy task, but in reality it’s actually quite difficult. We date dinosaurs based on where we find their fossils,

The fore-front of Restoration Ecology at ESA 2016

kimbrough_3-670x3200000-0002-8715-2896Source: The fore-front of Restoration Ecology at ESA 2016 A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Liz Kimbrough, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, August 7-11,

The supremely intelligent rat-cyborg

cyborg-438398_960_720-690x320Source: The supremely intelligent rat-cyborg When Deep Blue battled the reigning human chess champion the world held its breath. Who was smarter … man or machine? A human victory would confirm the superiority of human

The RosettaCon 2014 Collection: Developing tools in Macromolecular Modeling Software

The Rosetta developer community meets annually to discuss the advances in the Rosetta modeling software, a suite that models and helps design macromolecules. Today we announce the launch of the next exciting collection, RosettaCon 2014,

Collections Behind the Scenes

lemur1-150x150In this post, we give you a behind-the-scenes view of the application we built for our Editors to create PLOS Collections, and take a look at the user experience work that went into it. On October 21st, PLOS launched our new and improved

Uninterpretable: Fatal flaws in PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome follow-up study

Earlier decisions by the investigator group precludes valid long-term follow-up evaluation of CBT for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). At the outset, let me say that I’m skeptical whether we can hold the PACE investigators responsible