The phrase "bee brain" refers to the intelligence and decision-making abilities of bees, which may seem simple compared to humans but are actually quite impressive considering their small size and limited brain capacity. Full definition
Scientists are creating a computer models of the honey bee brain in an effort to build an autonomous flying robot that's able to sense and act like a honey bee. (treehugger.com)
Neuroscientist Christopher Connolly of the University of Dundee, UK, who has studied the effect of neonicotinoids in bee brains, says that the control colonies themselves were contaminated with the pesticides, and that thiamethoxam was detected in two of the three bee groups tested, even though it was not used in the experiment. (scientificamerican.com)
To discover this, Hui Liu, Gene Robinson, and Eric Jakobsson of the University of Illinois developed new computational tools to analyze patterns of gene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers alarm. (sciencedaily.com)