In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, ...

The bees were split into two groups. For the first one, a short flash was the “dot” in Morse code, and it was associated with ...

Researchers say they will be able to test different models in the "miniature brains" smaller than one cubic millimeter.

It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The first telegraph wasn’t really the first. In the fourth century B.C.E., Tacitus, a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, invented the hydraulic telegraph. It ...

In the tight-knit Boston music community, to know the late Steve Morse was to also know his son, Nick. Morse, a longtime Boston Globe rock critic who died last October at the age of 76, was beloved by ...

A report into the construction of a new £9.6m entrance to the House of Lords has identified the errors which led to delays and spiralling costs. In his 15-page review, Lord Morse concluded that a ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that an insect, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris, can choose ...

The wireless technology that saved hundreds from the shipwreck was in its infancy, and competing distress signals didn’t help. Initially developed in the late 1800s, the Marconi telegraph used long ...

Late in the nineteenth century, Guglielmo Marconi began experimenting with electromagnetic waves to send signals. At that time, the telegraph wire was the quickest way to get messages from here to ...