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…
In a paper published today in Diabetologia, a team at Joslin Diabetes Center, headed by Mary R. Loeken, PhD, has identified the enzyme AMP kinase (AMPK) as key…
The abstract, “Retrospective Review of Sleeping Conditions in Infant Deaths in New Mexico,” was presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National…
Children under age 6 have the highest rate of unintentional poisoning, and acetaminophen is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the U.S. In the pilot…
“Many people in sports medicine have assumed that these knee injuries have increased in recent years among children,” said J. Todd Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.,…
In a paper published online today on Science Express, the scientists and engineers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Wollongong in…
Marcel Salathé, an assistant professor of biology, studied how users of Twitter — a popular microblogging and social-networking service — expressed their…
The study, published ahead of print September 23 in the journal Health Services Research (HSR), reviewed 62,707 episodes of physical therapy using non-Medicare…
By analyzing microscopic pits and scratches on hominid teeth, as well as stable isotopes of carbon found in teeth, researchers are getting a very different…
The scene has become all too familiar – the disgraced politician, chastened business leader or shamed celebrity standing before a podium offering up their…
When a thief breaks into a bank vault, sensors are activated and the alarm is raised. Cells have their own early-warning system for intruders, and scientists…
Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself.An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Vanderbilt…
This would allow future machines to be able to imitate handwriting, pour water into a glass or handle a dishwasher. The results were published online in the…
Scholars at Brigham Young University studied 1,734 married couples across the country. Each couple completed a relationship evaluation, part of which asked how…
However, this study demonstrated higher miss rates for detection of lesions by narrow band imaging as compared with chromoendoscopy, and the authors concluded…
University of Illinois scholars Joseph P. Robinson and Dorothy L Espelage, who conducted the research, found that “youths who identify as lesbian, gay,…
The paper, “Plasma levels of sphingosine l-phosphate are strongly correlated with haemotocrit, but variably restored by red blood cell transfusions,” appeared…
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