The perfect hexagonal shape of honeycomb cells — once thought to be an incredible feat of math-savvy insects — has now been explained by simple mechanics. Scientists have marveled at the angular ...

High-resolution imaging of a honeycomb has revealed how honeybees construct the strong, complicated structure step by step 1. Made of wax, honeycombs are one of nature’s best-engineered structures — ...

Honeybees are nature’s tiny workers. Their fuzzy yellow and black striped bodies buzz between flowers, picking up pollen for their hives. They’re renowned for making honeycomb, a mass of hexagonal ...

Solved! A bee-buzzing, honey-licking 2,000-year-old mystery that begins here, with this beehive. Look at the honeycomb in the photo and ask yourself: (I know you've been wondering this all your life, ...

My husband's family have gone a bit bee crazy, there are hives popping up all over the place and we get to benefit from the delicious honey. When my sister in law recently sent me some honeycomb from ...

After nearly two thousand years, mathematicians have now finally proved that honeybees are among the world's most efficient builders. The 4th century geometer Pappus was one of several ancient Greek ...

Sweet structure For thousands of years, thinkers have marvelled at the feat of engineering that is the honeycomb. Each waxy cell is a perfect hexagon, its six wafer-thin sides providing not only ...

A new beehive system made up of a series of hexagonal prisms may be just what your bees need. The Honeycomb Hives system is designed to tackle bee colony losses by making hives which apparently keep ...