Scientists frequently reference a quote attributed to Einstein: “You do not truly understand something unless you can explain it to your grandma.&rdquo…

This post will be cross-posted on Berkeley Science Review The other day I was standing around with a few friends arguing about…

In this guest post, Sara Lindenfeld, a former PLOS employee on her way back to school for environmental graduate studies at Duke…

A glimpse out the window shows the effects of climate change on the weather – but how will the rising seas and…

This article is being cross-listed on The Berkeley Science Review. Check out some other really interesting pieces there! Isaac Newton, one of…

As a twenty year-old student, I realize that global climate change, and the way that we react to it, will most likely…

This is the first weekly student post on our relaunched PLOS Student Blog. Read about the blog’s purpose and scope on SciEd…

Whether the scientific establishment likes it or not, science is changing. Opportunities available to scientists now are becoming increasingly scarce, and, as…

A guest post by student scientist Jack Andraka After a close family friend died from pancreatic cancer, I turned to the Internet…

“So Beth had this amazing thing, where she went to this guy who sorted her back out,” my mum is saying, “he…

In the academic year 2011-12 the EPSRC, a UK science funding council, pulled funding for about a third of the physical science…

I was once asked to pick my ‘ultimate chemistry hero’ for a series on great scientists. It was a hard decision &ndash…