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As Scarlett Howard taught honeybees to do arithmetic, they showed her how fundamental numbers might be to all brains.
Puzzle solvers explored how evolution may have used negative and positive control mechanisms to shape the conflicting parental functions of reproduction and child rearing.
Two dynamic, seemingly opposing forces likely played an important role in the evolution of reproduction and child rearing in social animals like bees and humans.
The biologist Nancy Moran has spent a career investigating the surprising nature of symbiosis, a phenomenon in which two species can appear to merge into one.
By comparing the genomes of social and solitary bees, scientists hope to uncover the basis for communal behavior.