More than a decade ago, engineers John Bartholdi, Craig Tovey, and John Vande Vate became interested in bees. How exactly did a colony organize thousands of foragers to collect all the nectar needed ...

April 17 (UPI) --Scientists at the University of Granada, in Spain, have created a new algorithm to help law enforcement dismantle problematic social networks ...

Researchers from Inha University in South Korea have created a new grid-forming inverter concept based on the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, which is an optimization algorithm based on the ...

In an earlier story, I wrote about how bees were searching for nectar. After finding some food, a bee returns to its hive and performs a 'waggle dance' to share its discovery with the group. Now ...

Bees need all the help they can get. Thus programmer Mat Kelsey created a bee counter to see just how many of his winged honeymakers are hanging out in his hives. His system, which uses a Raspberry Pi ...

Honeybees gathering nectar inspired an algorithm that eased the burden of host servers handling unpredictable traffic by about 25 percent. Nature can inspire some great engineering, but it can also ...