While humans must stay in the loop for kinetic decisions, empowering drones to operate autonomously is a force multiplier.

Our findings redefine the queen cell not as a passive container, but as an engineered bioactive microenvironment that acts as a gatekeeper for caste determination 1. We show that worker cell wax, even ...

Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial ...

Beekeepers in Madrid, Spain carefully removed sections of a wall to remove a bee colony growing inside on May 31. The bees and their hive were later relocated. Coffee found to have startling effect on ...

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Researchers tracked honey bees in the wild using a drone-based system and found that each bee follows its own highly ...

For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen.

Xizhe Zhang is a professor working across computer science and medicine at the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and the School of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Nanjing ...

A new study demonstrates that honeybees can evaluate the reliability of their own communication, actively adjusting the vigor of their "waggle dance" based on the truthfulness of the information they ...

It all began in the spring of 2022, when Rachel Fordyce, then a laboratory technician in Cornell University's entomology department, noticed an anomalous presence of insects during her usual walk to ...

Tucked away on the southern end of the airport, on land that was once a golf course, a small apiary feels worlds away from the rest of the airport. Airport security requires natural buffer areas ...

A quiet cemetery in Ithaca, New York, was hiding a huge working world just under the grass. Scientists estimate that about 5.56 million regular mining bees emerged from East Lawn Cemetery in spring ...