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Today you learn about new research that can help us understand and save the bees,

the best sleeping position, according to science,

and how you can learn something better by arguing with yourself.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Scientists have made a real life breakthrough

in understanding how bees talk to each other.

In a paper appearing in the April edition of animal behavior,

researchers shared the discovery of a universal calibration that makes it

possible to decode honeybee waggled dances.

It works across subspecies and landscapes,

and this finding could help us maintain existing bee populations.

Pretty important stuff. We've talked about waggle dances before on

this show, but here's a refresher. When a worker bee finds a new source of nectar

nearby, it dances in a distinctive figure 8 pattern to let other bees know about the good news.

There's even a designated dance floor near the entrance of the hive where waggle dances take place.

Honeybees aren't waggling willy-nilly though.

Certain aspects of the dance communicate details about the nectar source,

how long the dance lasts corresponds with a distance to the source, for instance,

and the angle of the bee's dancing body relative. distance to the source, for instance.

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