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Research Highlights Drumming in woodpeckers is neurologically similar to singing in songbirds
October 4, 2022 By Audrey Snider

PLOS Biologue

Behind the paper Behind the paper: ecosystem evolution of the first animals
July 6, 2022 By PLOS Biology

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Collections Understanding Plastic Pollution: Consumer attitudes and knowledge
September 22, 2022 By Hanna Landenmark

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Call for Papers Safe and Sustainable Water in Cities: PLOS Water’s first Call for Papers
July 20, 2022 By deborawalker

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 Stopping Gun Violence in the Americas: A Preventable Pandemic
September 26, 2022 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

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Covid-19 Intranasal & Co: A Very Big Month for Mucosal Covid Vaccines
September 29, 2022 By Hilda Bastian

DNA Science

Post Two Newly-Approved Gene Therapies Cost Millions
September 29, 2022 By Ricki Lewis, PhD

All Models Are Wrong

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

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COVID-19 Making the most of attending an online conference
September 7, 2022 By Andreas Vilhelmsson

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Post What Does Gratitude Have To Do With The Environment?
September 12, 2022 By billsullivan

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Global health The Operation Was a Success, But the Patient Died
September 29, 2022 By PLOS