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In the News PLOS Announces Newest Joiners to the CRL/NERL Agreement
March 20, 2023 By PLOS

PLOS Biologue

Biology Ape Research Index (ARI): Quantifying the effect of previous experience in research tasks on cognitive skills in captive chimpanzees
March 15, 2023 By PLOS Biology

EveryONE

Editor Spotlight Editor Spotlight: Haroldo V. Ribeiro
March 13, 2023 By Shein Ei Cho

Latitude

Conference Reporting from the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York
March 20, 2023 By PLOS Water

Speaking of Medicine and Health

Global Health PLOS Global Public Health, charting a new path towards equity, diversity and inclusion in global health
June 14, 2021 By PLOS
Global Health Why is Polio Making A “Comeback” And What Can We Do About It?
March 17, 2023 By PLOS Global Public Health

PLOS Collections

Medicine & Health Sciences IWANN Special Collection 2019: Deep Learning Models in Healthcare and Biomedicine
September 9, 2020 By PLOS Collections
Earth & Environmental Sciences How the COVID-19 pandemic is teaching us to tackle the climate crisis
August 18, 2020 By PLOS Collections
Medicine & Health Sciences Understanding childbirth as a complex salutogenic phenomenon: the EU COST BIRTH Action Special Collection
July 29, 2020 By PLOS Collections
Medicine & Health Sciences Introducing the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Special Collection
July 27, 2020 By PLOS Collections

INDEPENDENT BLOGS

Absolutely Maybe

Science Communication Philosophy, Scientific Literacy… and Flattery
March 8, 2023 By Hilda Bastian

DNA Science

Post Partial Fetus in Sister’s Brain Supports Role of DNA Repeats in Development
March 16, 2023 By Ricki Lewis, PhD

All Models Are Wrong

antarctica The things we take for granted
August 10, 2022 By Tamsin Edwards

PLOS ECR Community

Academia My first chalk talk
March 11, 2023 By Lei Shen

SciComm

Public Science Communication Top 14 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2022 Edition
December 15, 2022 By Jason Organ

Your Say

Global health Let’s Figure out how to Improve Women’s Health Across the Globe
March 14, 2023 By PLOS