September 16, 2025 — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USANew research published in PLOS Biology reveals that several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes previously linked to social behavior in humans. According to Ian Traniello and colleagues, these findings point to ancient molecular roots of social behavior that have been conserved across species. Understanding Individual Differences in Sociability In social species, individuals display varying levels of sociability — some are highly connected and…
Salt Lake City – Physicians preparing to deliver a baby look at fetal heart rate patterns to guide them in deciding whether or not to perform a C- section. But…
Binge eating is a disorder which affects both men and women, yet men remain underrepresented in research. A new study published in the International Journal of…
The study, conducted by researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, appears in the journal Child Development.Cortisol, a human stress…
The study was done by researchers at the University of Minnesota and appears in the journal Child Development.The researchers looked at more than 260 mothers…
The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Quebec at Montreal, Laval University, the University of Alabama, the University of Montreal, and…
Diabetes is becoming more and more common. Today some 5–10 percent of the population is estimated to suffer from the disease. One common complication is foot…
The signals to make lipid after a meal come from hormones – most notably insulin – and the direct effect of nutrients on the liver. In a recent issue of Cell…
Researchers found that children with relatively poor language skills either didn't improve over the course of one academic year, or actually lost ground in…
The research, by Dr. Adi Mizrahi of the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences and Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University, has…
Adults and adolescents often adjust their behaviour and opinions to peer groups, even when they themselves know better.Researchers from the Max Planck…
“They are not bowling alone,” said political scientist Jon Miller, author of The Generation X Report. “They are active in their communities, mainly satisfied…
The study, published in the Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science journal (Intraocular Pressure and Corneal Biomechanics in an Adult British Population…
Young children exposed to a harshly punitive school environment are more inclined to lie to conceal their misbehaviour than are children from non-punitive…
The combination of optical, electronic and mechanical effects occurring in devices and materials that have structure on the nanometer scale are being…
A thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, reveals that many teachers have insufficient knowledge of how the spoken language is converted into written…
According to the Education and Training Strategy of the European Union, it should be four in ten by 2020. Getting this additional person into and through…
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