Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...

Since decoding the “waggle dance” in the 1940s, bees have been at the forefront of research into insect intellect. A new study shows that bees can be trained to understand the dot-dash behavior of ...

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It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and output devices. After all, each character is a tiny picture that ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a ...

The world’s first telegraph message relayed the biblical phrase “What hath God wrought?” and was brought about by Samuel Morse in 1844. This historic moment may not be the right one to be recognized, ...

In Morse code, a short duration flash or ‘dot’ denotes a letter ‘E’ and a long duration flash, or ‘dash’, means letter ‘T’. Until now, the ability to discriminate between ‘dot’ and ‘dash’ has been ...

Bees are not supposed to read code. Yet a new wave of experiments suggests that honeybees can track dot‑and‑dash style light ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1849 Samuel F. B. Morse received U.S. patent #6,420 for an “improvement in electric telegraphs.” This patent model ...

Bengal has remained non-committal on publishing the draft rules for the four new labour codes while Kerala and Tamil Nadu have expressed concern at the weakening of worker welfare and rights, setting ...

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