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Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?

Humans and bees can both work with mathematics. Could aliens do the same?

08.01.2026 10

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Scarlett Howard

Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: what teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds

Why do researchers care if a bee can learn to recognise a human face? When we push animals outside familiar territory, we can learn a lot about...

20.05.2025 10

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Scarlett Howard

Bees count from left to right just like some humans, apes and birds – new research

Did you know you have a ‘mental number line’, from smallest to largest? Turns out, so do bees.

04.02.2025 20

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Scarlett Howard