- According to a study, regardless of chronological age, people who live in neighborhoods with high crime, noise and vandalism are biologically more than a decade older than those who do not. http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchobject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0128460&representation=pdf 18 comments science
- An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 11 comments science
- Male DNA found in the Human Female Brain http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0045592 4 comments science
- New analysis Impact of GMO crops: pesticide down 37%, yields up 22%, profits up 68% http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0111629 81 comments science
- Urinate standing vs sitting. Study finds no difference for healthy males, while elderly males benefit from sitting. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101320 58 comments science
- Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0105225 3 comments technology
- Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0105225 6 comments science
- Disgust and the Politics of Sex: Exposure to a Disgusting Odorant Increases Politically Conservative Views on Sex and Decreases Support for Gay Marriage http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0095572#references 3 comments science
- PLOS ONE: Over the Hill at 24: Persistent Age-Related Cognitive-Motor Decline in Reaction Times in an Ecologically Valid Video Game Task Begins in Early Adulthood http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0094215 4 comments science
- Using the Aesop's Fable Paradigm to Investigate Causal Understanding of Water Displacement by New Caledonian Crows (2014) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0092895 4 comments cogsci
- Figure out what wild animals do with their time, using animal attached accelerometers and the k-nearest neighbour algorithm http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0088609 5 comments science
- University of Toronto researchers paper prove that the "blood type" diet is baseless http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0084749 21 comments science
- Real-Time Strategy Game Training: Emergence of a Cognitive Flexibility Trait http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070350#s2 3 comments science
- Psychedelics and Mental Health. A Population Study. In several cases psychedelic use was associated with lower rate of mental health problems http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0063972 4 comments science
- Religious experience may be linked to atrophy in the hippocampus http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017006 74 comments science
- Does this belong here, or in /r/badlinguistics? "Evidence for Direct Geographic Influences on Linguistic Sounds: The Case of Ejectives" http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065275 22 comments linguistics
- Our ancestors suffered from cancer too. Fibrous Dysplasia in a 120,000+ Year Old Neandertal from Krapina, Croatia. The tumor predates other evidence for these kinds of tumors by well over 100,000 years. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0064539 7 comments science
- Mediterranean Diet slows telomere shortening http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0062781 37 comments science
- Different Types of Laughter Modulate Connectivity within Distinct Parts of the Laughter Perception Network http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0063441 3 comments science
- Testosterone Levels Are Negatively Associated with Childlessness in Males, but Positively Related to Offspring Count in Fathers [full paper] http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0060018 10 comments science
- Does “Science” Make You Moral? The Effects of Priming Science on Moral Judgments and Behavior [full paper] http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0057989 120 comments science
- Brain-to-brain interface reported between human and rat brain. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0060410 12 comments science
- Overhearing a one-sided cell phone conversation is more distracting than listening to dialogue between two people. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0058579 7 comments science
- Adolescents with internet addiction have decreased Functional Brain Connectivity that is similar to the brain changes found in people addicted to cocaine or heroin. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057831 92 comments science
- New study shows that the presence of an animal can significantly increase positive social behaviors among children with Autism. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0057010 656 comments science
- PLOS ONE: Inappropriate Fiddling with Statistical Analyses to Obtain a Desirable P-value: Tests to Detect its Presence in Published Literature http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0046363 5 comments science
- Humans evolved on meat http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046414 106 comments science
- Discovery highlights that by at least 1.5 million years ago early human physiology was already adapted to a diet that included the regular consumption of meat http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0046414 4 comments science
- ~50-Million-Year-Old spectacularly preserved wood found in Canadian diamond mine, inferences show paleoclimates in the western Canadian subarctic were 12–17°C warmer and four times wetter than present. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0045537&annotationid=54987 54 comments science
- Glass Shape Influences Consumption Rate for Alcoholic Beverages http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0043007 10 comments science
- A study of 5829 homepage pictures of academics: differences in posture between academics in scientific fields vs. those in English, Fine Arts and Performing Arts. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038940 20 comments science
- Observation of Live Ticks by Scanning Electron Microscopy under High Vacuum Pressure http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0032676 4 comments science
- The Naked Truth: The Face and Body Sensitive N170 Response Is Enhanced for Nude Bodies http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0024408 4 comments science
- Medicine/Biology: What evidence do we have of the Primo Vascular System and what are the consequences to medicine if it exists? http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009940#cor1 7 comments askscience
- A few days ago a paper was upvoted to oblivion that proved the findings by Lombardi et al in Science were incorrect, stating that XMRV is a contaminant, this assumption was wrong. Also: please see my comment. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019065#abstract0 15 comments science
- Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016782 32 comments cogsci
- Megalodon Nursery found in the fossil record... tl;dr GIANT EXTINCT SHARK BABIES. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010552 9 comments science
- Proportional and absolute environmental impact of countries. surprise surprise, US is not worst! (we're 2nd worst...) http://www.plosone.org/article/slideshow.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010440&imageuri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010440.g001 6 comments science
- "...the odds of reporting a positive result were around 5 times higher among papers in the disciplines of Psychology and Psychiatry and Economics and Business compared to Space Science, 2.3 times higher in the domain of social sciences compared to the physical sciences..." http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010068 38 comments science
- PLoS ONE: “Thinking about Not-Thinking”: Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0003083 3 comments cogsci