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17-Apr-2025

Finding friendship at first whiff: Scent plays role in platonic potential

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two women meeting for the first time can judge within minutes whether they have the potential to be friends — guided as much by smell as any other sense, Cornell University research on friendship formation finds.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Cornell Center for Social Sciences

17-Apr-2025

Breaking the American climate silence

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Americans are more likely to discuss climate change with family and friends if they feel worried or at risk, perceive society as supportive of pro-climate behaviors or see global warming depicted in the media, according to a study published April 17, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Margaret Orr from George Mason University College of Humanities and Social Sciences in Fairfax, Virginia, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Climate

17-Apr-2025

Machine learning model to predict the fitness of AAV capsids for gene therapy

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study in the peer-reviewed journal Human Gene Therapy describes a machine learning (ML) model that can be used as a surrogate for laborious in vitro experiments. This in silico approach aims to increase the fitness of clinical adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids to make gene therapies more economically viable for patients.

Journal: Human Gene Therapy

17-Apr-2025

ACM joins India’s ONOS initiative with transformative ACM Open agreement

Association for Computing Machinery
Business Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society, has joined India’s One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative through a transformative new read-and-publish agreement with the ACM Open program.

17-Apr-2025

How should we prioritize patients waiting for kidney transplants?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

How should we prioritize patients waiting for kidney transplants? A new study could help policymakers analyze methods of matching donated kidneys and their recipients.

Journal: Econometrica
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

17-Apr-2025

Personality test for bees

University of Konstanz
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "Collective Behaviour" at the University of Konstanz have discovered that honey bees from the same colony have different preferences in terms of defensive behaviour. While some are still hesitating, others are already attacking.

Journal: Royal Society Open Science

17-Apr-2025

Come with: WVU study shows few people mind when others invite themselves to group activities

West Virginia University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research by West Virginia University behavioral expert Julian Givi, associate professor of marketing at the WVU John Chambers College of Business and Economics, shows many people won’t ask to join others’ plans because they think — often wrongly — that “self-invitations” tend to be resented.

Journal: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin