Honeybees are known to communicate in a dance language called the waggle dance to point out the location of resources that keep the hive alive, but new research reveals that gravity can mess with this dance's accuracy.
When faced with pathogenic fungi, bees line their hives with more propolis -- the waxy, yellow substance seen here. Propolis is a combination of plant resins and wax that has antifungal and antibacterial properties. Credit: Michael Simone-Finstrom, North Carolina State University
UNLV anthropology professor Alyssa Crittenden recently published a study that suggests honey played a bigger part in the rise of big-brained humans than anyone previously thought.
The many problems that currently face the U.S. honey bee population have underscored the need for sufficient genetic diversity at the colony, breeding, and population levels. The beekeeping industry needs access to stocks of origin or standardized evaluation and stock improvement programs.
Asian honey bee guards exhibit a peculiar behavior whenever a predator is around – they band together and “shake” their abdomens from side to side for a few seconds.
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GET ME ONE OF THEM ANGUS MUSHROOM AND SWISS MEALS WITH THE- NO, WAIT. IT’S ALMOST BEACH SEASON. BETTER GET ME THE SOUTHWEST CHICKEN SALAD. GET EXTRA RANCH, THOUGH. THEY NEVER GIVE YOU ENOUGH. WITH A...
“I’M LEAVING YOU.” THAT’S ALL HE SAID. AND THAT GOT ME TO THINKING, ONCE I STOPPED CRYING. ONCE HE WAS GONE. ABOUT SO MANY THINGS REALLY, BUT MOSTLY ABOUT HOW FEW WORDS IT TAKES TO SAY SOMETHING TRULY...
David Neel of Island Apiaries, right, looks on as Jeff Greenwood and Richard Briscoe of Advanced Construction and Maintenance in Oak Harbor remove a section of siding at the historic San de Fuca schoolhouse behind which honey bees had built a large hive.
We're living in an interesting time, where efficiency has become paramount for modern vehicles. Not only that, the ultra-efficient green vehicles that were once pipe dreams are actually becoming reality. But let's set aside the simple and the small and take a look at the big and the bold -- like a car that runs on coffee, or spaceships propelled by lasers. Here's a thoroughly less-than-scientific look at alternative forms of green transportation.
A Purdue University research team has been granted $1.6 million in federal funding to help develop the next generation of wind turbines, so-called “smart” turbines that will operate more efficiently and break down less often that today’s versions.
If you're using a Google product and the company detects that your computer has been compromised by a suspected state-sponsored attack, it will start showing you a warning at the top ...
NASA is preparing to launch the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, next week. Once in orbit, the probe will focus on high energy X-Ray emission, eventually surveying distant black holes. The probe will be a major boon to astrophysicists, but only after it's in space. And it's going to get there after being shot off a freakin' airplane.
Mosquitoes thrive in rainy climates, even though a typical raindrop can weigh up to 50 times as much as the insect. Scientists have thus long pondered how mosquitoes can fly through a rainstorm without getting killed by such collisions, the impact of which is comparable to a human being hit by a bus. The short answer is that the mosquitoes are so light that they simply hitch a ride on the raindrop without any significant force being transferred to them.
Space shuttle Enterprise suffered minor wing damage on Sunday when it collided with the navigation guides for a New York railroad bridge during the first half of its sea trek to a Manhattan museum for display.
The United States' spy satellite agency is giving NASA two spare space telescopes free of charge, each potentially more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA officials announced today.