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 findings are based on information from the 2007 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey conducted by ARK, a joint research initiative by Queen’s University…
What we eat can say a lot about us – where we live, how we live and eventually even when we lived. From the analysis of the intestinal contents of the…
The 25 country report has led to the creation of the International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Classification System, with the results published in two papers in…
A group of scientists and physicians from the University of Washington and Puget Sound Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System in Seattle, in collaboration with…
In cooperation with the West-Pomeranian Center of Advanced Technologies Szczecin (ZCZT) BioCon Valley is going to establish a German-Polish contact point for…
Among other things, the new Collaborative Research Centres will study the origins of diseases caused by viruses and bacteria, scarring of the liver and…
He continues: “Without environmental taxes it will be much harder to meet climate targets”. Kallbekken recently completed a Ph.D. on environmental tax schemes,…
A study carried out by research associate Helmut Rainer and his colleague Ian Smith concludes that unexpected downturns in the housing market can damage family…
Reporting this week in the Journal of Biogeography, the team from British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg, describe how they combed the land, sea…
The Effective Pre-school and Primary Education Project (EPPE 3-11) carried out the study. One the principal investigators of the project is Pam Sammons, a…
The wars in the Balkans in the 1990s resulted in about 40 000 people going missing, of those, as many as 30 000 in Bosnia-Herzegovina alone. As early as 1992,…
Researchers at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex used data from the British Household Panel Survey, which has…
This work has studied the effects of lead toxicity in the long term in wild birds populations, determining how this heavy metal causes bone weakening and…
In a new article in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology authors Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian (both of the University of Chicago) study how…
A Mayo Clinic study shows a majority of stroke patients don't think they're having a stroke — and as a result — delay seeking treatment until their condition…
Now a study co-authored by a Florida State University researcher has confirmed through a complex statistical analysis that many people see human facial…
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