Though the evidence shows the United States economy has been getting stronger, we still hear the same dire news: wages have been…
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The Student Blog How to get a better deal: New PLOS ONE economics study examines negotiation strategies
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Neuroscience Learning to Fly: Decoding Neural Circuits in Drosophila melanogaster
Model organisms are a special type of technology. Scientists can make then do things that we value as humans but that they…
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The Student Blog Wake up and smell the coffee: Climate change and coffee production
Formerly known as the “devil’s drink,” coffee is increasingly being viewed as an “elixir of life”. Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to…
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The Student Blog Highlights from SfN 2015: All-Optical Interrogation of Neural Circuits
PLOS Student Bloggers Dan Albaugh and Jeremy Boringer discuss the ‘all optical’ symposium at the 2015 Society for Neuroscience (#SfN2015) conference. Spatially…
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The Student Blog 10-28-2015 Global Health AMA Preview: Improving Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Maternal and Newborn Health
The global health community has seen substantial reductions in deaths from “the big three” infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis; as well…
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The Student Blog Open for Collaboration: Why open access publishing creates more networking opportunities for young scientists
By Farzana Rahman The theme for Open Access Week 2015 is “Open for Collaboration”. Now in its eight year, #OAWeek2015 celebrates how…
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The Student Blog Combating multidrug resistant bacteria: recap from ICOHAR 2015 conference
By Zohorul Islam From September 30 to October 2, 2015, representatives from public health, medical and veterinary sectors joined scientists working in…
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The Student Blog How do we define and measure scientific literacy?
By Joseph Timpona How do we define and measure scientific literacy? Whether we are aware of it or not, many current political…
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The Student Blog Broad-spectrum antimicrobials: Considering ‘Holobiont’ welfare
The discovery of antibiotics (also referred to as antimicrobials) is perhaps the most revolutionary outcome in the medical sciences during the twentieth…
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The Student Blog Archaeology and Conservation in the Tropical Forests of the Central African Republic
The tropical forests and savannas of Africa play a central, symbolic role in our modern dialogue about wilderness, conservation, and land management…
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Memory A new role for an old Alzheimer’s-related protein
Loss of memory is a well-established symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. Also, cognitive impairment and personality changes are also observed in these patients…
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The Student Blog Is Facebook making you sad? Research evaluating social media use and impacts on mental well-being inconclusive
There are more than 500 million people interacting with Facebook from countries all over the world every single day, and that number…