The perfect hexagonal shape of honeycomb cells — once thought to be an incredible feat of math-savvy insects — has now been explained by simple mechanics. Scientists have marveled at the angular ...

Honeybees are nature’s tiny workers. Their fuzzy yellow and black striped bodies buzz between flowers, picking up pollen for their hives. They’re renowned for making honeycomb, a mass of hexagonal ...

Francisco López Jiménez is taking on an unusual research subject for an assistant professor in aerospace -- honeycombs. A faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering ...

Mathematically speaking, the honeycombs grow like crystals. Tim Heard via Royal Society Publishing The same mathematical model that explains how crystals grow can also explain how tropical stingless ...

Ecologists from the University of Wurzburg have developed improved breeding methods to aid research into risks to bees. They detailed the methods in a study released in Methods in Ecology and ...