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…
Now scientists from the UCLA Department of Neurology have confirmed that blindness causes structural changes in the brain, indicating that the brain may…
Ana López, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), tells SINC that the objectives of the new study were:…
The study has just been published in the scientific journal Neurology.”Anyone carrying a lot of fat around the middle is at greater risk of dying prematurely…
How does a social situation actually function when the lives of both the players and others are under threat? Many of us remember April 24, 1975, when six…
Is a border line simply a virtual line appearing on the map? If so, why is it that Israeli rodents are more cautious than Jordanian rodents? Why is it that…
First-of-its kind research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business confirms that certain kinds of point-of-purchase discounts can effectively…
The Consumer Debt Stress Index (DSI) fell about two points in October, to 130.1 from 132.8 in September. The DSI has fallen for three straight months now, the…
However, new research by the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) shows that marketing tactics used by many food companies to promote their products may confuse and…
More than 500 students from five college campuses around the country participated in the study:- 42 percent of students in coed housing reported binge drinking…
“Thirty million tons – or 36 per cent – of the world's total fisheries catch each year is currently ground up into fishmeal and oil to feed farmed fish,…
With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate how the brain continues to develop structurally through adolescence and on…
Utilising a unique link between a survey of over 60,000 people and a comprehensive mortality database, the researchers found that over the four years following…
“Sea stars were assumed to be at the mercy of the sun during low tide,” said the study's lead author, Sylvain Pincebourde of François Rabelais University in…
In a study available online and appearing in a future issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher and…
Viruses are microscopically sized parasites. They plant their genes in the cells of their victim in order to 'reprogram' them. The infected cells then no…
Psychology professors Todd Maddox and David Schnyer found moderate sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a faster and more accurate process of…
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