Bees 'Buzz' in More Ways Than You Might Think
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:39.3 | Hey, Science Weekly listeners. |
| 0:41.3 | This is Jeff Dalvisio, executive producer of the show. |
| 0:47.5 | The whole podcast team is out in the field, so while we're away, we're bringing back a few amazing oldies from the archive. |
| 0:52.8 | Today, we have a show on a piece of research so electrifying, we had to reanimate it. |
| 0:58.3 | Producer Shayla Love brings us a story about research that might change the way you look at bees forever. |
| 1:01.0 | Bees, as we know, buzz. |
| 1:03.4 | But they're also buzzing with electricity. |
| 1:10.0 | Get a lot of them together in the air, and the mass effect of their electric flight could rival the charge in a thunderstorm cloud. |
| 1:16.4 | Also, if you covered a car battery with 50 million million bees, you could jumpstart it. |
| 1:23.3 | Real facts. The episode first aired on November 15, 2022, when we were still called 60-second science. Ah, memories. Enjoy. This is Scientific American 60 Second Science. |
| 1:38.9 | I'm Shayla Love. |
| 1:44.0 | When you hear a bee buzzing along, visiting a flower, you're hearing the movement of air made |
| 1:48.8 | by the fluttering of its wings. |
| 1:50.6 | But it turns out that bees are buzzing in more than one way. |
| 1:56.4 | I first saw this when I saw a bumblebee land on an electrode I was using, and I saw a real change in the measurement. |
| 2:04.6 | And I thought, this is a charged thing. |
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