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Predicting Movie Box Office Success Using Wikipedia 24 Aug 2013 | 04:35 am
It’s Friday evening and perhaps you’re planing to watch a movie, but will the new release you choose be a blockbuster or a lackluster flop? Well Wikipedia may help predict your choice’s success or fai...
Plant Roots May Lie Beneath Namibian Fairy Circles 21 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
Circles of barren land, ranging from one to several feet in diameter, appear and disappear spontaneously in Namibian grasslands. The origins of these ‘fairy circles’ remain obscure, and have been attr...
Lasting love? Research on Making and Breaking Romantic Relationships 19 Aug 2013 | 11:14 pm
Romance is in the air. Vacation getaways, cool breezes, and warm nights can set the scene for a good, old fashioned ‘summer fling.’ In celebration of love and the summer, here is some romance-centric ...
Crisis in the Late Bronze Age Triggered by Environmental Change 16 Aug 2013 | 03:50 am
What does it take to topple a civilization, or a whole group of them? Over three thousand years ago, agriculture and trade-based societies flourished in the Eastern Mediterranean. Yet something fishy ...
Young Cape Fur Seals Handle Heat with Built-in Air Conditioning 13 Aug 2013 | 03:53 am
One of the easiest ways to find relief from scorching summer heat is a quick dip in the water. Whether tiger, hippo, or seal, many animals also turn to the water to find relief. However, unlike their ...
Heating up the Science Behind PLOS’ New Climate Change Collection 9 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
From penguin colonies in Antarctica, to California birds and North Carolina bugs, this month PLOS ONE focuses on the far-reaching aspects of climate change. In conjunction with the annual meeting of t...
Coffee Plants Don’t Like It Hot 7 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
Guest blogger Atreyee Bhattacharya is a science correspondent and climate scientist, currently a research affiliate at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. Like most, ....
ISMB/ECCB 2013: much ado about data sharing 6 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
Last month PLOS ONE attended the ISMB/ECCB 2013 conference in Berlin on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. More than 1,500 delegates attended what is the largest conference on computational bi...
Announcing the Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection 5 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
Post authored by Collection Curator Ben Bond-Lamberty The ecological impacts of climate change are broad and diverse, and include alterations to species’ range limits, plant phenology and growth, ca....
Ecology Highlight: PLOS ONE at ESA 2013 2 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
PLOS ONE is eagerly anticipating a trip to the 98th annual meeting of Ecological Society of America, August 4 – 10 in Minneapolis, to meet with our Academic Editors, authors, reviewers, and read...
