A New Robot Tracks Sick Bees Wearing Tiny Coded Backpacks

Published: Nov. 9, 2018, 7:12 a.m.

Science hasn\u2019t been giving us a tremendous amount of good news these days. We\u2019re speeding toward climate catastrophe, for one. We\u2019ve screwed up the environment so badly, it\u2019s hard to even call it an environment anymore. And that\u2019s coming back to bite (or sting) us: Bee populations, which we rely on to pollinate our crops, are plummeting.