Bees! Tiny little winged providers of both stings and sweet, sweet honey! Also, apparently, tiny little supercomputers in their own right! (no, really!). There’s just one problem with bees. They appear to be dying out. There have been plenty of theories as to why this is so, and the latest comes to what seems like a rather obvious conclusion. More »
Marijuana farmers tried it with bears, and now a parks and recreation department in Wales wants to do it with bees: critters as cheap security. More »
The saying “you are what you eat” applies to bees too. The type of nectar they consume to create honey has a lasting chemical effect on the resulting sweet stuff. And, if the bees employ nectar from the toxic Rhododendron flower, guess what? You get toxic “Mad Honey”. More »
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The first 90 seconds of this song are made entirely out of bee noises. Turns out there’s a whole lot of beauty lurking behind the buzz. Here’s how they did it. More »
Who knew a machine with razor-sharp blades spinning at 200RPM you’re supposed to sit on top of might cause injury or death? Here are gruesome tales of mowing mishaps—from this past month alone!
