All the buzz—bigger honeybee colonies have quieter combs
When honeybee colonies get larger, common sense suggests it would be noisier with more bees buzzing around.
When honeybee colonies get larger, common sense suggests it would be noisier with more bees buzzing around.
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2018
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Contrary to popular opinion, one of the most famous women in ancient history did not rule Egypt, according to a new book.
Archaeology
Jan 22, 2018
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Heathrow Airport has launched an investigation after a memory stick containing confidential security information was found on a London street.
Security
Oct 30, 2017
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Ant queens may bury other queens - a task normally performed by workers - to avoid infection when co-founding a new colony, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Plants & Animals
Oct 12, 2017
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The queen conch, a marine mollusk prized for its edible meat and its glossy shell, is one of the most economically and culturally important species in the Caribbean. In the past few decades, intense international fishing ...
Ecology
Sep 19, 2017
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Scientists have studied the organization and function of social insect colonies since Charles Darwin (1809-1882) investigated beehives near his home in Kent with the help of his five children. Since then, prompted by the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2017
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Researchers at the University of St Andrews have thrown down the gauntlet to computer programmers to find a solution to a "simple" chess puzzle which could, in fact, take thousands of years to solve and net a $1m prize.
Computer Sciences
Sep 1, 2017
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Queens of stingless bee species (Meliponini) face a reproductive dilemma. If they mate with males with which they turn out to share the same sex determination gene, half of their offspring will consist of males, and the colony's ...
Biochemistry
Aug 30, 2017
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A new study of possible self-medicating behavior in bumble bees conducted by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports that a once-promising finding was not supported by further experiments and analysis.
Plants & Animals
Aug 28, 2017
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Proteins involved in the production and perception of pheromones may determine if red fire ant colonies contain a single queen or multiple queens.
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2017
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