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- First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0299292 0 comments
- Are random trading strategies more successful than technical ones? https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068344 70 comments
- Human and animal skin identified by palaeoproteomics in Scythian leather objects from Ukraine https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0294129 5 comments science
- Research has found COVID-19 patients had 81% more diagnoses of diabetes in the first four weeks after contracting the virus and that their risk remained elevated by 27% for up to 12 weeks after infection. COVID-19 was also associated with a six-fold increase in cardiovascular diagnoses overall https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1004052 111 comments science
- Land-use intensity of electricity production and tomorrow’s energy landscape https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0270155 33 comments science
- The clean energy claims of BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell: A mismatch between discourse, actions and investments https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0263596 3 comments energy
- Cannibal wasp babies eat their siblings. Scientists have found female wasps lay too many eggs for all of the larvae to survive on the insect corpses that she provides, leaving her babies with no option but to cannibalize each other https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0267958 23 comments science
- The brain's ability to clear a protein closely linked to Alzheimer's disease is tied to our circadian cycle, according to new research. The research underscores the importance of healthy sleep habits and opens a path to potential Alzheimer's therapies. https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1009994 15 comments science
- The impact of COVID-19 on science publications: COVID-19-related MeSH terms have experienced a 6.5 fold increase, while not COVID-19 publications weighted impact dropped by -16% to -19%. Also displaced clinical trial publications has dropped by -24% and diverted grants from research areas https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0263001 3 comments science
- Upregulation of DNA repair genes and cell extrusion underpin the remarkable radiation resistance of Trichoplax adhaerens https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001471 4 comments science
- [deleted by user] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003765 5 comments science
- The DRUL saliva assay has been shown to be safer, more comfortable, and less expensive than comparable COVID screening tools. Now a new study demonstrates that it is at least as sensitive as swab tests, too. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252949#sec010 5 comments science
- Synthesis of human amyloid restricted to liver results in an Alzheimer disease–like neurodegenerative phenotype https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001358 5 comments science
- Vitamin D and COVID-19 susceptibility and severity in the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative: A Mendelian randomization study https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003605 13 comments science
- Time management has a stronger effect on wellbeing than on job performance. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245066 6 comments science
- Most Europeans want governments to help the homeless and are willing to pay more taxes for it, though most citizens know little about details of homelessness. Poland and France surveyed less sympathetic with the plight of the homeless than other EU countries. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221896 15 comments science
- Judgments of effort for magical violations of intuitive physics - While recognizing that both were impossible, people rated conjuring a frog as more difficult than levitating one https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0217513 12 comments science
- Women perform better on math and verbal tests at higher temperatures, while men perform better on the same tests at lower temperatures, according to a new study (n=543). https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216362 316 comments science
- Correction: Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214157#sec009 15 comments science
- New research reveals a surprisingly drastic measure taken by some bacteria when facing starvation: they eject their flagella, leaving themselves paralyzed, but conserving energy so they can stay alive https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000165 5 comments science
- Professional soccer players' career trajectories correctly classified by neural network ~75% of the time. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0205818 7 comments soccer
- Investments in poor communities in Madagascar reduced both deforestation and forest fires in the past decade compared to communities that did not receive help. The effect was strongest following political instability in the country. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0190119#pone-0190119-t002 5 comments science
- Metformin inhibits the development, and promotes the resensitization, of treatment-resistant breast cancer | PlosOne http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0187191 14 comments science
- Cannabis, alcohol and fatal road accidents http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0187320 7 comments science
- Phase I clinical trial shows Ebola vaccine safe and effective http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002402 11 comments science
- Genes associated with Alzheimer's, coronary artery disease, and asthma are selected against in humans http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2002458 16 comments science
- Waist-to-height ratio more accurate than BMI or waist-to-hip ratio in identifying obesity, new study by Leeds Beckett University shows, published in PLOS ONE. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177175 78 comments science
- Mathematics Is Biology's Next Microscope, Only Better; Biology Is Mathematics' Next Physics, Only Better http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0020439 120 comments math
- Common alleles associated with autism spectrum disorder found to bear signatures of positive selection http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006618 18 comments science
- Bumblebees can learn by example: Researchers created a test where bees could access sugar water if they pulled on a string. 60% of bumblebees that watched another bee pull the string figured out they could do it too. http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002564&mwhe=1 17 comments science
- Olive Oil Consumption and Age-Related Macular Degeneration: The Alienor Study http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0160240 9 comments science
- This is an actual peer reviewed journal article: Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0153419 3 comments politics
- Men may be able to judge a woman's faithfulness from her face http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0134007 14 comments science
- Photosynthetic Animals? Scientists Create Viable Plant-Vertebrate Chimeras http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130295 10 comments science
- Nicklas Lidstrom is apparently getting into advanced stats and game theory... http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0125453 36 comments hockey
- PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi Reddit, we create computational models for artificial intelligence. Ask us anything! http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1004128 1077 comments science
- Early Back-to-Africa Migration into the Horn of Africa : Eurasions have been migrating to the Horn of Africa for 20,000-30,000 years http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004393 3 comments science
- Mass deworming might reduce Malaria and HIV infections http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0003234 4 comments science
- Humans, by 17 years of age, have a substantial burden of mitochondrial DNA point mutations and the clonal expansion of early to mid-life mtDNA mutations is likely to be the cause of mitochondrial dysfunction associated with aging (open access research article) http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004620 18 comments science
- The Estrogen Hypothesis of Obesity http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0099776 7 comments science