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- Bumblebee Queens' Resilience to Flooding https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0609 0 comments
- Memoirs: Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale. 25 June 1927–21 December 2020 (2021) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2021.0028 1 comment
- Fashion, art cycles are driven by counter-dominance signals of elite competition https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0731 63 comments
- Face-touching may reflect unconscious hand-smelling [pdf] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.2019.0372 31 comments
- The impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170501 3 comments
- 40% of earth's land may become uninhabitable to the plant communities currently living there due to climate change. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0011 124 comments science
- Severe inbreeding, increased mutation load and gene loss-of-function in the critically endangered Devils Hole pupfish | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1561 24 comments science
- Rediscovery of two casts of the historically important ‘Proteo-saurus’, the first complete ichthyosaur skeleton. (The original was destroyed in a bombing raid during World War II.) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.220966 3 comments science
- Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2022.0978 2 comments science
- Chocolate, a serious contender for the world’s most beloved food, is made from the seed kernels of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). Cacao trees that were accessible to birds and bats had more than double the yield of trees that were not. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1309 13 comments science
- Testosterone promotes 'cuddling,' not just aggression, animal study finds: Testosterone can foster friendly, prosocial behavior in males, a new animal study finds. Testosterone influences the neural activity of oxytocin cells—the so-called "love hormone", associated with social bonding. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.0453 119 comments science
- Bonobo apes pout and throw tantrums — and gain sympathy. Primates that showed infantile behaviour after losing in a conflict drew consolation from their companions. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2021.0310 27 comments science
- Reindeer are the only mammal known to seasonally adapt their eyes to the extremely blue colour of the extended twilight that occupies a large part of the winter 24h cycle in their Arctic habitat, in order to see lichen and wolfs also in the dark https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1002 93 comments science
- Wild parrot chicks babble like human infants. This finding could strengthen the idea that parrots are the best model for human vocal learning https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.0592 4 comments science
- A small cohort of Island Southeast Asian women founded Madagascar | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2012.0012 4 comments anthropology
- Meta-analytical multiverse of brain volume and IQ associations ["Brain size and IQ associations yielded r = 0.24, with the strongest effects observed for more g-loaded tests and in healthy samples that generalize across participant sex and age bands"] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211621 14 comments science
- Risk assessment of COVID transmission finds that opening a window can be 2x more effective at reducing your risk of infection compared to vaccination. The use of masks provides a 5x reduction in viral emissions. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2021.0076#RSFS20210076F3 75 comments science
- Vulnerability of avian populations to renewable energy production - model studied 23 priority bird species killed at wind and solar facilities in California, suggesting 48% of these species were vulnerable to population-level effects from added fatalities caused by renewables and other sources https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211558 58 comments science
- New Research Paper analyzing WSB just dropped, for all you wrinkly brains out there https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211488 10 comments wallstreetbets
- AskScience AMA Series: I'm a comparative psychologist that helped octopuses, lobsters, and their relatives be recognized in the UK as sentient beings. (See video of my cuttlefish "marshmallow test" self-control study in description.) AMA! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.3161 215 comments askscience
- Trade-offs between foraging reward and mortality risk drive sex-specific foraging strategies in sexually dimorphic northern elephant seals | Royal Society Open Science https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210522 3 comments science
- Population collapse of habitat-forming species in the Mediterranean: a long-term study of gorgonian populations affected by recurrent marine heatwaves https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.2384 2 comments science
- Reduced older male presence linked to increased rates of aggression to non-conspecific targets in male elephants | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.1374 2 comments science
- A research team has demonstrated that members of a group of baboons can establish shared social conventions -- in this case, by all agreeing on how to solve a problem in order to get a reward faster. This is the first time that such conventions have been studied experimentally in non-human primates. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2020.0310 8 comments science
- A giant nektobenthic radiodont from the Burgess Shale and the significance of hurdiid carapace diversity | Royal Society Open Science https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210664 7 comments science
- A new transport paradox was described, like "the Braess's paradox for the 21st century", by observing the congestion in a city as a collective process. Everyone tries to minimise their commuting time by driving and reach the worst-case scenario in terms of the traffic in a city. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.201808 9 comments science
- The human brain and testis share several biochemical characteristics which, in addition to their involvement in the speciation process, could, at least in part, be responsible for the expression of a huge number of common proteins. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsob.200322 7 comments science
- Cuttlefish exert self-control in a delay of gratification task | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.3161 3 comments science
- Indonesian macaques spontaneously exchange stolen goods for food with humans, showing a cross-generational token economy in wild animals https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0677 35 comments science
- Active leak of sea-bed methane discovered in Antarctica for first time https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1134 14 comments science
- New Mathematical Formula Unveiled to Prevent AI From Making Unethical Decisions https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.200462 16 comments nottheonion
- Boys or girls don't "run in families." Study finds no genetic contribution to variation in human offspring sex ratio, in a total population study of 4.7 million births https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.2849 3 comments science
- Consuming a western diet for as little as 1 week can subtly impair brain function & encourage slim & otherwise healthy young people to overeat, & makes it harder for people to regulate their appetite. After a week on a high fat, high added sugar diet, volunteers scored worse on memory tests. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191338 2913 comments science
- A slime mold, which is known officially as physarum polycephalum (or "the many headed slime") is neither a plant, an animal or a fungus. This non-neural organisms doesn't have two sexes -- male and female -- it has 720. And it can also split into different organisms and then fuse back together. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2016.0446 3 comments science
- Scientists at NYU and UWA developed a robotic predator fish to reduce impact of invasive aquatic species on native wildlife https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2019.0359 4 comments science
- Pet-owning adults were not significantly different from adults with no pets on symptoms of depression, anxiety or on self-reported interpersonal relationship functioning https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181555 10 comments science
- Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) is an uncommon yet distinct disease late-onset seromas surrounding the breast implants (median 8 [1–36] years of inserting the breast implants). Key symptoms including capsule thickening and capsular contracture https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsob.190006 3 comments science
- Mathematical modeling identifies bridge forms that could enable significantly longer bridge spans to be achieved in the future, potentially making a crossing over the Strait of Gibraltar, from the Iberian Peninsula to Morocco, feasible. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2017.0726 35 comments math
- Pet cats allowed outdoors are nearly three times as likely to become infected with pathogens or parasites than those confined to quarters, new study finds https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0840 16 comments science
- Dracula Ant surpasses Mantis Shrimp with fastest animal movement in the world. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181447 9 comments science