Drexel University researchers sampled a variety of army ant (Eciton burchellii parvispinum) colonies to test how their habitat distribution affected the ants' tolerances of extreme low and high temperatures. What they found ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 12, 2023
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Large brains are a hallmark of human evolution. Brains allow us to make sense of the world and to successfully navigate through our lives.
Evolution
Mar 22, 2023
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Only by knowing the average number of friends each person has, scientists at Complexity Science Hub (CSH) were able to predict the group sizes of people in a computer game. For this purpose, they modeled the formation of ...
General Physics
Jan 30, 2023
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The evolutionary pros and cons of group living vary for males and females, according to a study of ostriches reported today in eLife.
Plants & Animals
Oct 4, 2022
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To sting or not to sting? An alarm pheromone plays a decisive role in bees' willingness to sting—and their group size, as scientists from the University of Konstanz have now shown
Ecology
Sep 15, 2022
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Did the 12th century B.C.E.—a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text—coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size? Think again, says a UNLV-led team of researchers ...
Evolution
Aug 5, 2022
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Temperatures are rising, and one colony of ants will soon have to make a collective decision. Each ant feels the rising heat beneath its feet but carries along as usual until, suddenly, the ants reverse course. The whole ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2022
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A new study from the University at Buffalo is helping researchers understand how women in their early college years can use friends-based strategies to help avoid unwanted sexual experiences.
Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2022
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Animals that live in groups tend to be more protected from predators. That idea might be common sense, but it's difficult to test for some species, especially for wild populations of fish that live in the ocean.
Ecology
Jun 29, 2022
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An article in Campbell Systematic Reviews reveals that there are surprisingly few high-quality studies that have examined the effects of reducing adult/child ratios and group sizes on factors such as young children's psychosocial ...
Education
May 4, 2022
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