24 Aug 2022

Science: Pesticides and bee brains, low-gravity droplets

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 24 August 2022

Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn to look at how commonly-used pesticides can impair honeybees' ability to navigate.

Researchers gave wild-caught honeybees sugar - while others got pesticide-contaminated sugar and then made them walk in front of video screens to think they were off-course.

She'll also look at why astronauts at the international space station have been helping researchers work out how liquids interact with solids - without gravity getting in the way.

 Laurie Winkless is a physicist and science writer.

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