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PLoS One aims to challenge academia's obsession with journal status.

How do metallic alloys solidify from their original liquid state? A study of the deformation of cooling alloys confirms what had been suspected for some time: solidifying alloys bear exciting similarities to granular materials.

A drug-trial failure leaves Pfizer in search of a new corporate strategy to deal with the post-blockbuster age, as Meredith Wadman reports.

After all known sources are accounted for, puffy blobs of infrared light persist on deep-field telescope images. Evidence is mounting that these could be the signatures of stars in early 'protogalaxies'.

A report of the X-ray signature of an accreting black hole in a globular star cluster associated with the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4472.

Optimists see oil gushing for decades; pessimists see the planet's energy future already drying up. Alexandra Witze reports.

Rare muscle fibres could improve sporting prowess.