This article analyses the results of 7,262 matches from the four major tennis tournaments to determine whether there is an advantage to serving first in the beginning and final sets of professional tennis matches.

It all comes down to hair. The hair on a new tennis ball tends to be smoothed flat, while a ball that's been knocked around a bit will be more fluffy. Tennis players may check three balls or more before serving so that they can select one smooth ...

a collection of PLOS Computational Biology Education articles which reads as a "book" to be used as a reference or tutorial for a graduate level introductory course on the science of translational bioinformatics.

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Storing and processing genome data will exceed the computing challenges of running YouTube and Twitter, biologists warn.

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