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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Researchers from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the Bindley Bioscience Center at Purdue University have…
The 8th International Workshop on “Sulfur Metabolism in Plants: Mechanisms and Application to Food Security and Responses to Climate Change” will be held at…
Now, for the first time, a study comprehensively calculates the relative contributions of the components responsible for that heating, known as the greenhouse…
A study in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that adults with fibromyalgia had a much higher prevalence and risk of restless…
Funded by the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University, a group of social scientists at the university analyzed long-term…
Some say that the concept of odds is too great for many human minds to comprehend. There's also availability heuristics such as media coverage, which only add…
The researchers, whose results appear in the early online edition of the International Journal of Obesity, found that children with high waist circumference…
Led by Arthur Shapiro of American University and Zhong-Lin Lu of the University of Southern California, the researchers explain the illusion of the curveball’s…
Meanwhile a Georgia Tech College of Computing Ph.D. candidate has shown that playing health-related video games on a mobile device can help adults learn to…
No matter how you slice it, watermelon has a lot going for it –– sweet, low calorie, high fiber, nutrient rich –– and now, there's more. Evidence from a pilot…
“Brain size shrinks in late adulthood, which can cause memory problems. Our results should encourage well-designed trials of physical exercise in older adults…
Lisa Peterskovsky and Margot SchüllerWhile the leading industrial nations are still recovering from the consequences of the global financial crisis, China and…
In two studies published today in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the risk factors for readmission to the hospital are examined based upon general medicine…
Cardio-metabolic risk factors such as high blood sugar and insulin, and low high density lipoprotein cholesterol that are present before pregnancy, predict…
Xenotropic murine leukemia virus¨Crelated virus (XMRV) has been the subject of many studies since its discovery in 2006, but conflicting reports have created…
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