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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The findings, which appear today in the journal Science, have implications for many forms of social interaction, from disaster management to how many friends…
In a paper published in Social Science & Medicine this month by Dr Wendy Wills at the University of Hertfordshire and a team at the University of Edinburgh,…
Prolonged aggressive and disruptive behaviour in childhood is a strong risk marker for criminality and mental health problems in adulthood. Early…
Currently, doctors treating patients with breast cancer make treatment decisions and predictions based largely on the location and size of the tumor and if the…
Consumer Web sites use rhetorical tactics to address injustice, identity, and agency – turning personal betrayal into a “cause” worthy of public attention and…
A new study from the September issue of the Journal of Consumer Research shows that consumers align material goods and services separately when considering…
The study was the first to investigate the association over time between glycosylated hemoglobin – a long-term measure of blood sugar – and the risk of…
By following more than 700 pairs of twins diagnosed with MS, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California found that…
Psychologists at the University of Leicester are to investigate texting language to provide new tools for criminal investigation. The forensic linguistic study…
Researchers found that the amount of nicotine contained in just one puff of a cigarette can occupy about 30 percent of the brain's most common type of nicotine…
Parkinson's disease is a debilitating neurological disease that affects about 1 million people in the United States. Little is known about its causes and hence…
“The common thinking in the past had been that Rett syndrome only affects girls, and that the genetic flaw would be so serious in boys that they would die…
Doctors have completed the first step of a unique medical research study, evaluating 1,001 individuals at risk of developing Huntington's disease who do not…
Do student athletes financially outperform their non-athlete counterparts after they graduate from college – or do the earnings of college athletes lag behind?
Every hurricane season, about 100 low-pressure weather disturbances whirl westward out of West Africa and over the Atlantic Ocean, but less than one-fifth of…
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