Ig Nobel Prize-winning scientists who discovered that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate have now learned (together with some colleagues) how certain bees probably manage to tamp down traffic congestion. Their study is: “Accelerated Landing in a Stingless Bee and Its Unexpected Benefits for Traffic Congestion,” Pierre Tichit, Isabel Alves-dos-Santos, Marie Dacke and […]
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Dung Beetle insights: The Milky Way, and now the sun
The team that won an Ig Nobel Prize for discovering how dung beetles relate to the Milky Way has now, plus or minus some colleagues, discovered how the those beetles and their cousins relate, also, to the sun. They tell about it in a new study: “Neural coding underlying the cue preference for celestial orientation,” Basil el […]
Marie Dacke explains how dung beetles navigate
Marie Dacke explains how she and her colleagues learned that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate their way home. The team was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize (jointly in the fields of biology and astronomy) for that work. This talk was part of TEDxLundUniversity: BONUS: The Lund University announcement about the Ig Nobel Prize