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…
New research suggests that the formation of youth identity and social capital is greatly affected by how children and youth spend their leisure time. Spare…
A research project within the Academy of Finland’s Research Programme on Social Capital and Networks of Trust (SoCa) examined smoking cessation among a total…
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stord/Haugesund University College in Norway are now presenting a study based on deep interviews with victims of the…
Professor Bruce J. Ellis, the John and Doris Norton Endowed Chair in Fathers, Parenting and Families at the UA Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences,…
“Common underlying search mechanisms may exist that drive our behavior in many different domains,” said IU cognitive scientist Peter Todd. “If how people…
The programme also elucidated and strengthened the concept of social capital and established an interdisciplinary research approach in the field. This is the…
These findings appear in the September issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, published by the American Psychological Association.The…
Better nanoscale measurements are critical for setting standards and improving production in the semiconductor and nanomanufacturing industries.This new…
Experts have insisted that it is possible to prevent 80% cardiovascular diseases and 40% different types of cancer through diet, physical exercise and other…
David Smith, associate director of disease ecology at UF's Emerging Pathogens Institute, said the study will guide scientists and policy makers in extending…
Most salient outcomes of those projects dedicated to progress and advances of the MBR technology for municipal wastewater treatment will be presented in a…
Six in ten ‘self-harmers’ mention suicidal wishesStudy shows that self-cutting is not confined to young girls, but is the most common form of self-harm amongst…
Even scientists define 'a gene' in different ways, so it comes as little surprise that the media also have various ways of framing the concept of a gene,…
Cancer cells have multiple ways to avoid apoptosis, programmed cell death the means by which organisms deal with defective cells. One defense is to produce…
Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia University (WVU), researchers have…
The study, which appeared this month in the journal Health Psychology, found that by offering an experimental introduction to a counseling session, public…
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