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…
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More than 170 participants gathered this week for the eighth annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference in Irvine, Calif. This year's…
Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study found that there is no link between localized prostate…
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Hunted for centuries for their oil (and until the 1970s for dog food), there may be only 160 of these gentle giants in the population found off Nova Scotia. In…
Nelson says the concept of “shared social responsibility,” a term coined by the study’s authors, may provide the sustainability component often lacking in…
Physical activity promotes changes in the brain that may protect high-risk individuals against cognitive decline, including development of Alzheimer's disease,…
What are borders these days? When travel was local, borders and communities were easy to define, but now our connectivity is more complex. It's time to think…
Watkins and her colleagues in CU-Boulder's department of psychology and neuroscience discovered that a single injection of a compound called ATL313 — an…
“The discovery of toxic darts could eventually lead to new ways to control disease-causing pathogens,” said Stephanie K. Aoki, first author and postdoctoral…
The new results suggest violence prevention strategies need to focus more on local inequalities, especially to protect vulnerable adolescent girls.The survey…
A new 11-country survey from The Commonwealth Fund finds that adults in the United States are far more likely than those in 10 other industrialized nations to…
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