PLOS One is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science since 2006. The journal covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine.
Thirty years after a landmark study found Barbie and Ken’s proportions were almost impossible in real people, Australian researchers measured today’s dolls with the same tape and the same math. Barbie has moved a long way toward average. Ken’s waist has barely budged.
A survey of over five thousand Brazilian adults finds that deja vu, visions and out-of-body sensations follow oddly similar patterns of interpretation, and most people count the experience as a net positive within their own lives.
Likweli is only the fifth new African monkey named in 75 years, and it split from its closest cousin 4–5 million years ago — the deepest divergence in the colobus family. Wide rivers and poor-soil forest appear to have fenced it into a range the size of a small city, where it’s already endangered.