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…
The research, published in the latest edition of the international journal Pediatrics, also found that these infants were at greater risk of neglect and of…
But the symbols found on many other ancient artifacts remain a mystery, including those of a people that inhabited the Indus valley on the present-day border…
Farmers and businessmen in the Philippines have scrambled planting the Physica Nut (Jatropha curcas), a biofuel crop seen having big potential returns once the…
Populations of major wild grazing animals that are the heart and soul of Kenya's cherished and heavily visited Masai Mara National Reserve—including giraffes,…
The FANTOM, or Functional Annotation of the Mammalian cDNA, is a research consortium organized by RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) and made up of leading…
For two decades, pharmacists have pasted DO-NOT-TAKE-WITH-GRAPEFRUIT-JUICE stickers on various pill bottles because it can interfere with the enzymes that…
Meanwhile, Chinese “patriots” are thought to reject Western brands as a symbolic gesture of loyalty to their country. A new study in the Journal of Consumer…
To illustrate the phenomenon they investigated, authors Young-Won Ha and Sehoon Park (both Sogang University, Korea), and Hee-Kyung Ahn (University of Toronto)…
Stevenage, April 2009. DuPont is underlining its exhibit at Achema 2009, the global summit for the chemical process industry (Frankfurt, Germany, 11th-15th May…
Corticosteroids are powerful drugs used to treat inflammatory conditions such as asthma and other chronic diseases which has made them among the most widely…
The study confirmed previous findings that tobacco smoke could possibly harm cardiovascular function. In addition, it extended those findings by showing that:-…
Researchers say their study, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), confirm the findings of other smaller…
Because food production is a major contributor to global warming, a lean population, such as that seen in Vietnam, will consume almost 20% less food and…
FANTOM, or Functional Annotation of the Mammalian cDNA, which is organized by RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC), has leading scientists in Australia,…
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, discovered a striking relationship between changes in the copper-binding properties of abnormal prion…
A new study of lake sediments in Ghana suggests that severe droughts lasting several decades, even centuries, were the norm in West Africa over the past 3,000…
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