Working in pairs, they could create a series of cards depicting pollination, which their partner then has to sequence. This film will be relevant for teaching Science/Biology at Key Stage 1 and ...

MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an unprecedented ...

American scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new type of robotic insect that can ...

Human impacts go beyond fragmentation of habitat to other modifications. We are interested in how anthropogenic impacts from farming to logging to cattle grazing affect bee communities and pollination ...

Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...

like assisted pollination," says Kevin Chen, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), head of the Soft and Micro Robotics Laboratory within ...

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...

The effects of landscape and agricultural practices on pollination, bee diversity, and yield in Highbush Blueberry ... Toronto in 2010, completed a postdoc at Oxford, and is currently the W.F. James ...

South Australian ecologists have provided irrevocable proof why native vegetation is critical for healthy crop yields and ...

like assisted pollination,” says Kevin Chen, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the senior author of research paper, in a statement.