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Massive bee colony discovered in a school water meter box

I tracked down a mysterious water meter box on this school property and opened it to find a full colony of bees packed inside. In this teaser, you see my first person view as I lift the lid, reveal ...
The Fresno Bee

Fresno’s almond industry faces a bee crisis on two fronts. Here are 5 takeaways

A honeybee buzzes between branches of an almond tree in one of Sarbdeep Atwal’s orchards on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. The California State Beekeepers Association expects too few bees for California’s ...
IEEE

A Dual-Space Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Integrating Configuration-Coupled Heterogeneous Disjunctive Graph for Scheduling Problem in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

Abstract: Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) offer high flexibility, enabling efficient adaptation to changing market demands. However, this reconfigurability significantly increases the ...
Wired

AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...
KETV Omaha

Nebraska beekeepers fight to save America's bees amid growing colony collapse

FACING A CRISIS THAT THREATENS THEIR EXISTENCE. RESEARCH FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SHOWS OUR STATE IS AMONG THE HARDEST HIT, LOSING AS MUCH AS 70% OF BEE COLONIES IN THE PAST YEAR. KETV ...