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Researchers at Washington State University have been monitoring challenges honeybees face for nearly 20 years, and they said this year could be one of the worst ones for the important pollinators in decades.

However, they have also been working to create robot bees to help with pollination. KCBS Radio’s Holly Quan spoke with Ryan Bena, a PhD student at the University of Southern California and co-author of the study about the project.

“Essentially we built this this robot – it’s about 95 milligrams,” he explained. “So it’s roughly the size of… an actual insect bee. And we use flapping wings. So for flapping wings to fly and control the bee, you know, fly through the air… what’s unique and sort of interesting about our particular robot is that we finally developed a way to coordinate the flapping of these four wings so that we can control the bee in every direction.”

A two-year expedition to coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean detected half a million types of microbes, the latest estimate in the quest to quantify the planet’s microbiome.

The big picture: There is intense debate among scientists about how many different types of bacteria and other microorganisms live on Earth — information that could aid conservation of species and fragile ecosystems brimming with biodiversity.

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A new electrode design could form part of a battery able to last more than 4,000 charge cycles.

A research team led by University of California Los Angeles astrophysicists recently published their findings in the journal Nature, confirming the existence of the faintest galaxy ever seen from the early universe known as JD1.

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Servier’s drug vorasidenib helped glioma patients stave off cancer growth.

In this video we explore the potencial risks that threat the stability and the survival of our civilization. Reviewing past civilizations collapses like the Bronze Age Collapse and the fall of the Roman Empire and see if any of the signed that led to past collapse exists today.

- Bronze age collapse.
- Roman Empire collapse.
- Alarming signes today.

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Paragraphica may resemble a camera, but it does not capture light to generate images. Instead, the device dispenses with a lens and sensor altogether, and relies on AI to produce results.

ABC Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran agrees with Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk about commercial real estate prices.