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Joseph Shavit

Good friendships can make for a healthier gut microbiome

Social connections are essential for good health and wellbeing in social animals, such as ourselves and other primates.

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Scent of a friend: Similarities in body odor may contribute to social bonding

Science researchers have found that people may have a tendency to form friendships with individuals who have a similar body odor.

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Friends at first sniff: People drawn to others who smell like them

To assess whether the eNose results accurately mirrored human perception, the team recruited human smellers and devised a set of tests

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'Your heart smiles': Friends cheer on 7-year-old until he makes a shot on the basketball court

"Let's go, Andrew. Let's go!" Those were the encouraging words from students as their friend made several attempts to score a bucket.

Joshua Shavit

Do genetics control who our friends are?

Have you ever met someone you instantly liked, or at other times, someone who you knew immediately that you did not want to be friends with.

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Student's kindness to special needs classmate goes viral

When you're as good as friends as Kylie Rappold and Connor Morris are, you tend to help each other out.

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Ham Radio Enthusiast Heroically Saves Friend’s Life Hundreds Of Miles Away

A San Joaquin County man is credited with saving his friend’s life from hundreds of miles away. A miracle that he called the wrong number.

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Assigned classroom seats can promote friendships between dissimilar students

Students of varying gender, ethnicity, educational achievement were more likely to become friends after induced proximity

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12-year-old boy's random act of kindness to help disabled man warms hearts

Raymond Butler was riding his bicycle home from football practice when he got a flat tire, which may have been fate for a unique frienship

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The power of kindness unites Delaware woman with young Maine cancer survivor

Sophie Dear from Delaware saw Jameson Brooks' name on a sick kid list years ago and has been sending him cards ever since.

Joseph Shavit

Student's kindness to special needs classmate goes viral

When you're as good as friends as Kylie Rappold and Connor Morris are, you tend to help each other out.

Joseph Shavit

'We're all people': Amidst summer protests, Facebook disagreement leads to lasting friendship

Lana Davis and David Davis set aside their differences and discovered a newfound respect for one another.