In ancient Greece, the city-states that waited until their own harvest was in before attacking and destroying a rival community's crops often experienced better long-term success.

Biology - Evolution

May 15, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

In biology, we often think of natural selection and survival of the fittest. What about survival of the luckiest? Like pioneers in search of a better life, bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 08, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org) —In a paper published today in the peer-reviewed science journal PLoS ONE, researchers have presented a new model to explore how changes in food availability might influence honeybee colony growth ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —U.S. beekeepers lost nearly one in every three honey bee colonies over the winter of 2012-2013, according to an annual survey conducted by the Bee Informed Partnership and the Apiary Inspec ...

Biology - Ecology

May 08, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

Neonicotinoids are under intense scrutiny. But a ban of a broad variety of pesticides may be required to protect bees, humans and the environment.

Biology - Ecology

May 03, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1

A new U.S. report blames a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of honeybees across the country since 2006.

Biology - Ecology

May 02, 2013 3 / 5 (3) 1

(Phys.org) —A team of entomologists from the University of Illinois has found a possible link between the practice of feeding commercial honeybees high-fructose corn syrup and the collapse of honeybee colonies ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 30, 2013 4.7 / 5 (141) 21 |

Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered why Heteroxenia corals pulsate. Their work, which resolves an old scientific mystery, appears ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 23, 2013 3.3 / 5 (3) 0 |

Fire blight is a serious threat to fruit trees. Now a quick test has been developed at the Vienna University of Technology, which can indicate the danger early - with the help of bees.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Individual freedom and social responsibility may sound like humanistic concepts, but an investigation of the genetic circuitry of bacteria suggests that even the simplest creatures can make difficult choices ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

The rosemary season has ended, but sage is in full bloom. In the fragrant hills of the Peloponnese in southern Greece, after a few sharp turns along a path, Nikos Reppas' old car arrives at bee heaven: a ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 21, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up of two behavioral ecologists from the University of Lausanne and a robotics engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has developed a novel way to ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 19, 2013 4.7 / 5 (11) 5 |

Bulgaria and Romania on Tuesday signed a deal to set up three wetland areas along their joint 470-kilometre (290-mile) Danube border, protecting pelicans, herons, pygmy cormorants and other birds, the environment ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 16, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(AP)—What does it take to elevate the common ant from picnic pest to household pet? To thousands of children and many adults, the answer is a bit of soil and a see-through enclosure that, in these modern times, can be made ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 03, 2013 not rated yet 0

Small hive beetles are indigenous to Africa, but have been damaging beehives in the United States and Australia for several years. Rowan Sprague, a University of Virginia fourth-year student, wants to stop ...

Biology - Other

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0