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…
It often turns out there is more to commonplace everyday events than meets the eye. The folding of paper, or fall of water droplets from a tap, are two such…
“Treasure Hunt”, the computer game for cognitive-behavioral therapy, was developed by Veronika Brezinka at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at…
Some parts of working life have been individualised and some have not, while the degree of individualisation varies between different groups of employees, to a…
Now they are finding out how to use changes in a child’s gaze aversion to understand their educational progress. A group led by Dr Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon at…
A study by a University of South Carolina psychology researcher featured in the journal, Experimental Psychology, provides a better understanding of why…
The groups and individual researchers represent a cross-section of bioscientists, from universities and institutes across the UK and from all parts of the…
The themes of the newly approved Collaborative Research Centres include the development of innovative spaceship drive systems, overcoming treatment resistance…
A review of scientific evidence found only a minority of children were actually affected by what they eat. A combination of food, genetics and environmental…
Whereas the number of new HIV-infections has remained relatively stable, infections with other sexually transmitted diseases such as hepatitis, syphilis and…
This finding, based on an analysis of nearly 400,000 infants in Taiwan, is the first that links by-products of water chlorination to three specific birth…
The researchers analyzed markers of ovarian reserve in 20 premenopausal breast cancer patients who had been treated with adjuvant chemotherapy, who were one or…
The method is called Applied tension release (ATR) (or TASP, an acronym based on its name in Swedish) and was developed by Jan Lisspers, a professor of…
This result stems from a randomized controlled trial led by the Institute of Child Health Burlo Garofolo (ICHBG) in Trieste (Italy) that lasted 6 years (2…
According to experts, job burnout is currently considered one of the psychosocial risks to which health professionals are exposed. The study analysed the…
This study, led by Arturo Álvarez Roldán, aspired to understand the implications of cancer for children diagnosed with the disease as well as their families,…
Carried out by Queen’s PhD student Brendan Sturgeon, the ongoing research examines the impact of anti-social behaviour on older people in Northern Ireland.Brendan said: “Society and the media tend to portray older people as being weak, fragile and alone – a stereotype that makes them ‘easy targets’ for the cowards who engage in anti-social behaviour. …
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