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

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

When considering what shapes animal development, factors such as genetics come to mind. For a queen bee, however, her special wax home also has a role. Surprisingly, although queen cells are ...

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 ...

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 ...

A viral social media video claiming to show a swarm of honeybees gathering around a motorcycle while it is being filled with E-85 petrol has been debunked, with investigators confirming that the clip ...

Even advanced technology can struggle when the real world becomes unpredictable. In April 2026, a Waymo robotaxi in San Antonio, Texas, drove into a flooded lane during severe weather, prompting the ...

In seconds, this artificial intelligence technology can produce new content responding to prompts Elysse Bell is a finance and business writer for Investopedia. She writes about small business, ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...