Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — In our food chain, honeybees are tasked with a vital function: pollination. In North America alone, honeybees’ role in pollination enables the production of at least 90 ...

In the media buzz about bee losses, a lot of proposals have been floated about how to replace natural pollinators, come the beepocalypse. Robotic bees seem like a fairly simple proposition; fly the ...

We have previously written about one project that employed robot bees to pollinate flowers. Now, an Australian artist has come up with the inverse concept: Using a robotic flower to attract real bees.

A Georgia college student has created a drone that will help farmers. Anna Haldewang came up with the idea of Plan Bee during a design class at the Savannah College of Art and Design. It's a drone ...

Bees in the U.S. are more endangered than ever, requiring protection under the Endangered Species Act for the very first time back in October. Now a college student in Georgia is showing the world ...

: one that pollinates: as a : an agent (such as an insect) that pollinates flowers The most common pollinator that most folks will be familiar with is the ever-productive bee. These little miracles ...

Bees have been dying at an alarming rate in recent years, threatening to take down entire ecosystems with them. According to an article in the BBC, bees "pollinate 70 of the 100 crop species that feed ...

(CNN) In our food chain, honeybees are tasked with a vital function: pollination. In North America alone, honeybees' role in pollination enables the production of at least 90 commercially grown crops, ...