It's that time of year when children look forward to a stocking full of presents—but the first international academic "Santa survey" shows many adults also wish they still believed in Father Christmas and some had felt ...
Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2018
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Lactation is the production and secretion of milk for the young and is a mammalian attribute. However, there have been several examples of milk provisioning in non-mammals. In a study published in the journal Science on November ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2018
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Johannes Kohl, a molecular and cellular biologist at Harvard University, has been awarded the grand prize in the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology competition. He describes his work in an Essay on Science and Society ...
In gardens, parks and woods across the UK, the Sexton burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides quietly buries dead mice and other small vertebrates to create edible nests for their young.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2018
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Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Cambridge have shed light on why some species cannot tell the difference between their own offspring and those of intruders that have been slipped into their nests.
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2018
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American workers' occupational status reflects that of their parents more than previously known, reaffirming more starkly that the lack of mobility in the United States is in large part due to the occupation of our parents, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2018
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Animals who share the task of parenting do a better job than parents who do so on their own, according to a study of insects.
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2018
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A team of researchers at the University of Montana has found that fledglings and their parents must negotiate to find the right time for the young birds to leave their nest. In their paper published on the open access site ...
Informing parents about not just when but how often their children miss school reduces absenteeism by 10 percent or more at every level from kindergarten all the way through 12th grade, according to a study published this ...
Social Sciences
Apr 27, 2018
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For married couples, money is a common source of stress and conflict that can take a major toll on relationship quality.
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2018
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