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December 17, 2021
12/09/2021
Dentistry and oral health
Sotozono and colleagues investigate the relationship between differences in oral biofilm and the circadian rhythm. They hypothesize that sleep may affect an individual’s oral microbiome composition.
Image credit: Dentistry by Muclinic Pixabay License
12/08/2021
Agriculture
Mukherjee and colleagues examine the growth of legumes in Mars soils, given the presence of nitrogen in the Mars atmosphere that could be utilized by rhizobia to fix nitrogen.
Image credit: Mars Panorama by NASA, Public Domain
12/08/2021
Soil Science
Peterson and colleagues characterize the microbial and molecular aspects of the ectorhizosphere, in an important step towards developing a more complete understanding of how the cultivation of biofuel crops can be undertaken in nutrient poor environments.
Image credit: Dried Wetlands Soil with Bird Tracks by born1945, CC BY 2.0
12/08/2021
Criminology
Simpson and Orosco assess the accuracy of police dispatchers’ classification of callers' requests for public service in Chandler, Arizona.
Image credit: Call Center by Peggy Marco, Pixabay License
11/30/2021
Latitude blog
Roy Bauwer of SouthSouthNorth presents an overview of the Future Climate for Africa program and discusses how a poor scientific understanding of Africa’s climate results in large uncertainty in future changes.
Image credit: Newport Geographic
12/03/2021
Everyone blog
This year, PLOS ONE celebrates its 15 year anniversary. Over this period, the journal has published over a quarter of a million articles. Here, staff editors from different subject area teams choose their favorites, including reports of 13,000 year-old footprints, declining insect populations, the impact of plastic pollution on the release of greenhouse gases, and the pathophysiology of celiac disease.
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11/29/2021
Everyone blog
In celebrating the 15 years since PLOS ONE published its first articles, we invited authors of some of the first papers to be published, as well as an author of a more recent paper, to share information about their careers, their perspectives on Open Science, and their experiences as PLOS ONE authors.
Image credit: geralt
12/09/2021
Radiology and Imaging
Untracht and colleagues present a toolbox for optical coherence tomography angiography data.
12/10/2021
Psychology
Wilkinson and colleagues suggest that patients with high levels of early-life stress show deficits in positive feedback sensitivity and reward learning that are distinct from depressed patients.
Image credit: Brain by ElisaRiva, Pixabay License
12/08/2021
Physiology
Deepening our understanding of movement adaptations in response to pain, Bergin and colleagues demonstrated that ‘taking action’ to relieve pain, can lead to a reduction in pain perception.
Image credit: Knee by whitesession, Pixabay License
12/10/2021
Marine Biology
Flower and colleagues study the use of escape gaps in traps to reduce bycatch of juvenile fish and improve fishery sustainability in Montserrat.
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