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This spring, 160,000 residents moved into the latest luxury complex in Oslo by the world-renown architecture firm Snøhetta. Unlike in most luxury homes, though, these residents were expected to build ...
WEBVTT INSECT-SIZE, SAYS ERIKA TARANTAL. ♪ >> ON A QUIET HILLSIDE, THIS CHEST IS ALIVE WITH ACTIVITY. THIS IS A HIVE, HOME TO 75,000 TO 80,000 HONEYBEES. THEY ARE BUSY AT WORK. >> I TRIED TO HELP ...
Honeybees can build nests in any number of places, whether it’s a manmade box, a hole in a tree trunk or an empty space ...
Bees adapt to rough surfaces with clever building rules—insights that could transform 3D printing and architecture.
UVA’s new Fairfax campus hosts many species, including two honeybee hives that produce more than 100 pounds of honey a year.
Anyone who’s read The Secret Life of Bees may have thought fleetingly about setting up a backyard hive. Samantha Gordon took the plunge. Ten years later, she and her husband, Scott, have a buzzing ...
Brad DeLanty lost the bees in this hive but is saving the honey for his next bees to feast on. Bees play an important role in our — and nearly every — corner of the world. Eco- and food systems depend ...
When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...
It’s sometimes reported that one in every three bites of food depends on bees. As is often the case when an easy-to-grasp notion spreads, there’s a dose of truth and a dollop of exaggeration. The stat ...
In a new study, CU researchers found that honeybees used adaptive strategies to build stable, usable honeycomb on irregular ...