A 2020 look at PLOS in the news! Charlotte Bhaskar, PLOS Media Relations Manager
January
Image: Zhu et al, 2020 (PLOS Computational Biology CC BY4.0) An image of the setup for the moth’s navigation experiment and a grid discretizing the moth’s position. –PLOS Computational Biology
(Many of our most popular papers continue to sound the alarm regarding the climate crisis and the need to steward our planet with greater care and consideration. Other popular papers highlight all we can learn from our fellow earthlings–like the moths in this Computational Biology paper.)
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PLOS Computational Biology
(This paper looked at information-seeking in the US during the 2016 Zika virus epidemic–but clearly foreshadows the COVID 19 response in the US, publishing the same week PLOS’ San Francisco office closed as we shifted to working from home.)