It builds on the team's previous research into how bees use active vision—the process where their movements help them collect and process visual information. While their earlier work observed how bees ...

Dozens of bees crawled along the frame in Frances Ratay’s hands as she looked down at the colony in awe. The 70-year-old ...

Australian researchers looked at how social insects work together to transport food, and applied those ideas to teams of ...

The study highlights a big idea: intelligence comes from how brains, bodies and the environment work together. It demonstrates how even tiny insect brains can solve complex visual tasks using very few ...

Our cities are complex places of work, industry and residential activities. This often makes it hard to pin down the spread of different contaminants throughout them. This can be a concern, especially ...

From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...

Pesticides are slowly wiping bees off the face of the Earth, yet scientists are still unable to come up with evidence-based ways to protect them. That isn’t for a lack of trying — many different ...