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Curiosity is limitless. Discover more research that fascinates you with expertly curated, topic-specific PLOS Collections. Everything we publish is always Open Access so there are no restrictions on how you search, read, share, and reuse collections to inspire your future discoveries.

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  • A PLOS Collection Animal Welfare

    Humans have a responsibility to ensure that animals under their care are treated with respect and dignity. Research on animal welfare is crucial to improve the quality of life experienced by animals…

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  • A PLOS Collection Stable Isotopes

    The use of stable isotopes as an analytical tool has been invaluable for a wide variety of scientific disciplines. Researchers in fields ranging from palaeooceanography to anthropology have utilized…

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  • A PLOS Collection Improving Reproducibility of Computational Models

    The reproducibility of the research is a crucial element to keep science moving forward…

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  • A PLOS Collection Freshwater Ecosystems

    Freshwater Ecosystems occupy a small percent of the Earth's surface but they are rich sources of biodiversity and provide important services to human societies, such as water, food, regulation of…

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  • A PLOS Collection Cities as Complex Systems

    Cities are centres of human interactions and the innovations that arise from them. Urbanization has led to many positive developments for society, but also contributes to many of our most pressing…

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  • A PLOS Collection Nanomaterials

    This collection showcases a range of published articles from the breadth of the PLOS journals on nanomaterials, featuring the fabrication and application of nanosized materials and structures. As the…

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  • A PLOS Collection Emerging therapies in mental health

    In this curated collection we highlight a range of novel evidence-based approaches to mental health by bringing together diverse perspectives from pharmacology, psychology, psychiatry, and…

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  • A PLOS Collection Influenza

    Influenza is an important cause of death and morbidity globally. While vaccination is the best way to prevent influenza virus infection, other pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical strategies can…

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  • A PLOS Collection Affective Computing and Human-Computer Interactions

    The study and design of devices that can recognize and simulate humane effects as well as improve the way different people interact with different interfaces is inherently multidisciplinary and…

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  • A PLOS Collection Tropical Agriculture

    In this collection, we present a selection of PLOS articles representative of the innovative agricultural research taking place in tropical countries and driving forward the development of…

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