A child’s simple curiosity about why some bees live in different-looking cells has helped crack open a layer of honey bee biology that scientists had overlooked for decades. Researchers at the ...

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Bees have been around for at least 120 million years, when, Scientific American said, our own ancestors were “rat-like” creatures. You’d think that’d give us plenty of time to learn about them. But so ...