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Shared Genetic Mechanisms Link Social Behavior in Bees and Humans

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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Exploring the Work Stress Epidemic: Insights from UK Employees

The researchers behind the 24-7 survey into working life, hope employees in the UK will share their good and bad experiences in an attempt to discover more…

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You can't scare people into getting fit or going green

Recent years have seen increasing efforts to encourage people to do more for their health and for the environment, for example by recycling more, using cars…

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Russian Students Emigrate: Economic and Social Influences

This new wave of emigration of the country citizens is conditioned not by political factors as it was formerly, but by economic, social and psychological…

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Eating Challenges Among Older Hospital Patients: Study Insights

Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, spent two weeks studying 48 hospital patients and 50 nurses during mealtimes on two medical wards. They…

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AIDS Orphans Face 17 Times Higher Risk of Death, Study Reveals

These are the preliminary results of a study conducted by Evasius Bauni and four colleagues on an INPEPTH demographic surveillance site in Kilifi, said Bauni…

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What makes business people see red?

When asked what made them most irate, bureaucracy and form-filling were cited by more than two-thirds of business advisers and more than a third of businessmen…

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Impact of Economic Status on Racial Minorities in the US

However, African Americans are more likely than Latinos and Asian Americans to retain their racial group consciousness regardless of improvements in their…

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Why Chemotherapy Affects Food Taste for Patients

“Unfortunately, these problems that impact nutrition and quality of life are underestimated and understudied by oncologists,” said Andrea Dietrich, Virginia…

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You don't need a big lottery win for long term happiness… but a few thousand helps

In work to be published in the Journal of Health Economics, researchers Professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick and Dr Jonathan Gardner from…

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Musical Training Boosts Brain Development in Young Children

The findings, published today (20 September 2006) in the online edition of the journal Brain [1], show that not only do the brains of musically-trained…

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Low Birth Weight Impacts Preschool Quality of Life: Study Insights

Researchers assessed 118 children who had birth weights of 1500g or less and compared them with a control group of 170 born at normal weights to compare their…

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Thin Models: Women Prefer Elegance in Advertising, Study Finds

Researchers from the University of Bath found that two-thirds of women they interviewed reacted favourably to print advertisements featuring thinner female…

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Cabernet sauvignon red wine reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease

The study entitled “Moderate Consumption of Cabernet Sauvignon Attenuates â-amyloid Neuropathology in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease” is in press, and…

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"No time to exercise" is no excuse

“The most striking finding from our study was the remarkably similar improvements in muscle health and performance induced by two such diverse training…

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Unique Genetic Link to Viral Encephalitis Uncovered

The study is being published September 14 in Science X-Press, an advanced, online edition of the journal Science.In the study, the researchers suggest that…

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Calorie restriction in non-human primates may prevent and reduce Alzheimer's disease neuropathology

A new study directed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine extends and strengthens the research that experimental dietary regimens might halt or even reverse…

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