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…
Women, who are not necessarily human, have nothing to do with mythical characters such as Snow White, Cinderella, or Minnie. A study carried out by Pilar…
Researchers assessed the behaviour of rats born with different numbers of siblings, a variable that has rarely been taken into account until now. The group…
Today there is a tendency for governments to shift to more punishment-based criminal policies, after decades of dominance for the notion of care, where the…
The peculiarity of this analysis is that differently from other studies it is performed using the statistics of the employment status of people with…
The study, led by researchers at University College London (UCL) and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), suggests significant…
Led by Dr Dermot O’Reilly, the research indicated that once individual and household characteristics had been taken into account, the higher rates of suicide…
The study, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, will be based on interviews with older women (aged 55 and over) and aims to learn why,…
Taking pituitary surgery as an example, a large peer-reviewed study published in January’s Clinical Endocrinology indicates that the move in the late 1990s to…
Researchers showed that breakdown of this self-cleaning feature can make kidneys more vulnerable to dysfunction and disease. “We speculate that defects of this…
A new study of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a disease that affects more than nine million Americans, will pave the way for the biopharmaceutical…
The project will unite plant scientists, computer scientists and information scientists from around the world for the first time ever to provide answers to…
This study (published in PLoS ONE on January 30) is the first to examine the circumstances under which chimpanzees, our closest relatives, will exchange one…
Joydeep Bhattacharya, from the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London and his graduate student Simone Sandkühler from the University of…
There’s a high probability that people who are prone to herpes simplex virus (HSV) outbreaks can inherit that susceptibility through their genes, University of…
The advisory council supports a national network of Centers of Excellence through a program called the Specialized Centers Program in Reproduction and…
The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) has unveiled an €11.8 million scheme which will fund the early career formation of…
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