Tag: colony
Researchers want to vaccinate bees so we don’t run out of food
I can’t BEElive this!
Honeybee clusters act as ‘super-organisms’ to keep everyone safe during bad weather
Intelligent behavior emerging from a group of relatively unintelligent organisms.
Turns out you can make harder-than-concrete bricks on Mars simply by compressing soil
That's surprisingly convenient.
NASA is designing small away-from-home-ecosystems to make space exploration sustainable
Recycle everything!!!
Guillemot chicks leap from their nest, risking life and limb, before they can even fly — and know we know why
The dads really pull through for these chicks.
NASA establishes first Space Technology Research Institutes to make Mars a self-sufficient colony
"Producing > packing" -- NASA.
Most ants don’t do much, and that makes the colony more efficient
Maybe it's time for a vacation.
Vegetables grown on Mars could be healthier than their Earth-grown counterparts
Food grown on Mars has been officially declared edible.
Elon Musk warns that settling Mars will be harsh, even deadly for the first colonists
Mars will be very safe and very comfortable one day. But first it's going to be harsh and unwelcoming.
Ant colonies behave as a single superorganism when attacked
Ant colonies are incredibly complex systems -- the tightly knit, intensely cooperative colonies are closer to a single superorganism than ...
A hundred people shortlisted for one-way trip to Mars
Selected from more than 200,000 applicants, 50 men and 50 women have become the final contenders for the one-way trip ...
Watch: The Inside of a Huge Wasp Colony
Some wasps decided to build their colony next to the window of Youtube user Vang Tsal. Naturally, he was spooked ...
The emperor: major penguin colony disappears
It's another bad omen for life on Earth, as a colony of imperial penguins from the Antarctica peninsula has disappeared, ...
How house ants pick their dream home
Photo by Mark W. Moffet Seeing all the available houses in the neighborhood and then choosing is not necessarily the ...