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The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference and associated website of recorded conference presentations (TED Talks) is a highly successful disseminator of science-related videos, claiming over a billion online views.

It has been shown that large interdisciplinary teams working across geography are more likely to be impactful. We asked whether the physical proximity of collaborators remained a strong predictor of the scientific impact of their research as measured by citations of the resulting publications.

Sex differences in personality are believed to be comparatively small. However, research in this area has suffered from significant methodological limitations. We advance a set of guidelines for overcoming those limitations:

This article in PLoS ONE shows that listening to hip hop increases vocabulary skills.

When a peer-reviewed journal shows how the media draw misleading conclusions from neuroscience data: the case of ADHD under the scrutiny of PLoSOne .

As humans, chimps follow the example of prestigious, high-status individuals much more readily than that of others.