Robotic Beehive, Oral Transmission, Cranberry Juice & UTIs

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today you’ll learn about a robot that can resurrect bees from near death, how oral transmission shapes the way music evolves, and the huge power of the tiny cranberry to stave off urinary tract infections.

Robotic Beehive

“Robotic Beehive Resuscitates Honeybee Colony from Fatal Winter Cold.” by Abigail Eisenstadt. 2023.
- https://www.aaas.org/news/robotic-beehive-resuscitates-honeybee-colony-fatal-winter-cold
“Are honeybees dying off? It depends on whom you ask.” by Stephanie Sigafoos & Molly Bilinski. 2021.
- https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-science-bees-4539519fb935484e017861a0c0cec79a

Oral Transmission

“New Research Shows How Cultural Transmission Shapes the Evolution of Music.” n.a. 2023.
- https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-03-22-new-research-shows-how-cultural-transmission-shapes-evolution-music
“Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution.” by Manuel Anglada-Tort, et al. 2023.
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223002439

Cranberry Juice & UTIs

“A myth no more: Cranberry products can prevent urinary tract infections for women.” n.a. 2023.
- https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/a-myth-no-more-cranberry-products-can-prevent-urinary-tract-infections-for-women
“Urinary tract infection (UTI).” Mayo Clinic. 2022.
- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/urinary-tract-infection/symptoms-causes/syc-20353447
“Understanding UTIs Across the Lifespan.” n.a. 2016.
- https://www.urologyhealth.org/healthy-living/urologyhealth-extra/magazine-archives/summer-2016/understanding-utis-across-the-lifespan

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:14.0	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.6	If you're loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about a robot that can
0:21.5	resurrect bees from near death, how oral
0:24.3	transmission shapes the way music evolves and the huge power of the tiny cranberry
0:29.0	to stave off urinary tract infections. Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:34.4	Researchers believe they have a robotic solution for two things that affect the health
0:38.7	of bees, chill comas and a type of parasitic mite called the Varroa
0:42.3	destructor.
0:43.0	Just when you think it's all our fault that the bee populations are declining, you hear about
0:48.0	bumblebee comas?
0:50.0	Don't forget about Varroa destructors.
0:52.0	They are one of the bee's most dreaded enemies.
0:54.0	So wait, where do robots fit into all of this?
0:57.0	That is a great question.
0:58.0	A paper published in science robotics described what is basically a robotic beehive, and it's actually a pretty big deal.
1:04.0	It not only protects the bees but the data it can gather about the colony gives us a
1:08.1	brand new glimpse into a bee's life. Right and and the bees have been having kind of a hard time lately haven't they?
1:14.7	Yeah they have by some estimates beekeepers in the United States lost around 45% of their
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