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…
MADIT-CRT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy) is a clinical trial that enrolled more than 1,800…
A major study of three to 19 year-olds has provided vital data on the weight problems faced by the growing number of children and young people with type 1…
For the past 2 million years, the size of the human brain has tripled, growing much faster than other mammals. Examining the reasons for human brain expansion,…
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Well-heeled donors, private corporations and average citizens sending money to their favorite charities are changing the landscape of global health funding,…
A new study provides the first global evaluation of how management practices influence fisheries’ sustainability. The study assessed the effectiveness of the…
Two Mayo Clinic patients whose prostate cancer had been considered inoperable are now cancer free thanks in part to an experimental drug therapy that was used…
Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American…
A new study published this week validates those findings, showing that the Implicit Association Test, a psychological tool, has validity in predicting behavior…
The study, in the June 19 issue of the journal Science, is the latest to rule out a drop in CO2 as the cause for earth's ice ages growing longer and more…
But the unintended costs to the environment and human health have been substantial. Nitrogen runoff from farms has contaminated surface and groundwater and…
The team of researchers, led by Dr. Carol Lynn Berseth of Mead Johnson Nutrition, Indiana, USA, found that up to half of formula-fed infants experience a…
New evidence underscores the theory of human origin that suggests humans most likely share a common ancestor with orangutans, according to research from the…
“Some critics argue that mobile phone novels are not literature,” says Yukiko Nishimura, a linguist and professor of humanities at Toyo Gakuen University in…
If dad looks exhausted this Father's Day it could be due to his job, suggests new research that found many male employees are now pressured to work up to 40…
A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the connection between nationalism and the anti-consumption movement in India.Authors Rohit Varman…
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