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Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding they said could cut waiting times for test results to just ...

Bridges then sent the trained bees back to their respective colonies. A little while after that, each colony was brought to the puzzle. As the bees in each colony solved the puzzle, ...

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Bees trained by scientists can teach each other new skills. by Rich McCormick. ... Impressively, 60 percent of the new bees were able to replicate the behavior without any human training.

Butterflies and bees flitted from bud to bud, digging their furry faces into dusty pollen. “I planned to never retire,” ...

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To test whether bees can count, we trained them to fly from their hive past four identical landmarks, shaped like 11-foot-high pyramids. During the training, they found a sugar reward after the ...

I was reading a children's book about insects to my daughter, and it said that bees see colors differently than humans do. My ...

Yet, other bees learned the whole sequence from social observation of these trained bees, even without ever experiencing the first step's reward. But when we let other bees attempt to open the box ...

She trained some bees to head-butt the red tab to get the sugar water and trained others to push the blue tab. Then, Bridges placed these tutor bees inside different colonies, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery by Queen Mary scientists, bumblebees have been shown to possess a previously unseen level of cognitive sophistication. A new study, published in Nature, reveals that ...