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Who’s Up for Some Killer Bee Beer?
If you’re looking for booze with an extra bit of buzz, you’re in luck. Microbiologists in the U.K. have just created beer using yeast sourced from the guts of Africanized honey bees, a.k.a. killer bees. The bee beer was brewed by researchers from Cardiff University. They were visiting Namibia, located in southwest Africa, as a…
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Researchers Could Lure Murder Hornets to Their Deaths with Sex
Birds do it, bees do it — even the wasps that kill bees do it. A clever team of scientists now has an idea to use the Asian giant hornets’ horniness against them, in hopes of stopping the invasive species from decimating U.S. bee populations. They’ve identified the sex pheromones of the queen and propose…
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The Genetics Behind Bees’ Black and Yellow Butts
If you’re close enough to a bumblebee to see the order of its stripes, you’re probably too close to it. But lucky for you, a team of geneticists recently did a more highfalutin version of that task, analysing several species of bee to suss out what causes different species of the insect to get different…
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Google Dodges $12.4 Billion Bullet
Google just won a major court battle with software giant Oracle over Google’s use of elements of Oracle’s Java programming language. If Google had lost, it could have held major ramifications for the ways in which almost all software is developed. Oh, and Google would have had to cough up $US9 billion ($12.4 billion) in…