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…
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Rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums, researchers at the…
Stephen Hamilton, an aquatic ecologist at Michigan State University, studied nine streams that flowed through cities, forests and agricultural land in the…
Total refurbishment of the Brussels offices marks the expansion of activities and ambitions for the intergovernmental research initiative, which also runs the…
The settlement of the ScanBalt Academy in Schwerin, graciously donated by Landesregierung of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will have positive impact for the region…
Inviting researchers to attend institutional review board sessions designed to approve these same investigators’ requests to conduct research involving human…
The findings offer new hope for sufferers of SLI, which affects seven per cent of children and is a major cause of many not reaching their educational…
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The first in a series of four colloquia recently took place in Amsterdam, Holland. The event marked the start of a project known as ‘A Topological Approach to…
The three-year study, which is being conducted by Jenny Billings, Ferhana Hashem and Jan Macvarish at the University’s Centre for Health Services Studies, will…
In the first study of its kind, Donner and Chris Kucharik of the University of Wisconsin quantify the effect of biofuel production on the problem of nutrient…
Toronto researchers used two standardized or “mystery” patients, one male and one female, both with moderate knee osteoarthritis reporting the same symptoms of…
PSA tests have been lauded as important diagnostic tools for prostate cancer, however much of the data used to make this conclusion were generated in the early…
A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows there is increasing evidence that high rates of illness in Persian…
First, the researchers asked whether offspring fat mass is more strongly related to maternal BMI than paternal BMI; it should be if the hypothesis is true.Second, they asked whether a genetic indicator of maternal fatness – the “A” variant of the FTO gene – is related to offspring fat mass. A statistical association between maternal FTO genotype and offspring fat mass, after taking account of the offspring’s own FTO genotype, would support the developmental nutrition hypothesis….
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