Finding Genius Podcast

Could Mitochondrial Robustness Prevent Cancer?

06 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to prevent cancer with metabolic therapies used to increase mitochondrial health? Could it also be possible to treat even very aggressi...

Where Light and Magnetism Meet: Observing Intracellular Chemistry in Real Time

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For the first time, chemistry can be observed in real-time. Turn a magnetic field off, watch cellular fluorescence dim; turn the magnetic field back o...

Radiation Resistance Kills: Can Zebrafish Help Us Prevent It?

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to radiation therapy for cancer, cellular resistance to it can be a death sentence. What is the genetic basis for this resistance in hum...

The Zoomed-Out Therapeutic Picture of Cancer with Clinician-Researcher Dr. Doru Paul

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The latest in cancer therapeutics is just around the corner. Press play to learn from a true expert in the field and discover: How immune checkpoint ...

Cancer Complexities: New Insights from an Expert

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cancer has impacted almost every single person on the planet in one way or another. Maybe you've had it yourself, or know someone who has. Despite how...

Chlorine Dioxide: The Truth Buried by Lies, Condemnation, and Censorship

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine being given two options: lose your license to practice medicine, or keep quiet about a substance that you know has revolutionary therapeutic a...

Your Brain as a Filtering Device for Your Mind: Learning from Near-Death Experiences

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Does your brain function as a filtering device for your mind? It might sound strange, and you might think there's no way. But consider that the eyes ...

Could Immunostimulants Signal the End of Untreatable Tumor Metastasis?

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You could very well have cancer cells circulating in your body at this very moment. But don't worry, because if you do, you'll probably never know it....

Wireless Technology and 5G is an Active Threat to Your Health and Privacy

27 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The US Federal Government continues to hide clear evidence resulting from a 10-year, $30 million study funded by the FDA: radiation from wireless tech...

Bees: Breaking Conventional Medicine, Regenerating Health

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Royal jelly, honey, propolis, pollen…the list of bee products that many of use from day to day is long. But fewer people are aware that there's some...

Morphology Biology: How Did Our Cells Learn the Delicate Art of Creating Each of Our Internal Organs?

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Timothy Saunders, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore's Mechanobiology Institute, shares his insights on the science of morpho...

Cancer Genetics Research: The Latest in Highly Targeted Ways to Fight Back Against Cancerous Tumor Cells

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are customized cancer treatments a real possibility? Benjamin D. Hopkins, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Genomics and Genetic Sciences, Oncological S...

Intuitively Intermittent Fasting: How You can use Your Diet to Reverse the Causes of Chronic Disease

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is missing when it comes to Western medicine's standard approach to treating chronic health problems? Dr. Will Cole, author of Intuitive Fasting:...

Beyond the Hype: Wealth, Finance and Marketing in the New Era of Online Investing for the Common Man (or Woman)

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is hustle and hope really enough to make it big in the modern world of online finance? Jeff Rose, Youtube's Wealth Hacker and Founder of the finance b...

Naturopathic Breakthrough or Pop Culture Trend: Can Essential Oils Really Improve Chronic Illness Symptoms?

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Eric Zielinski, author of the national bestseller, The Healing Power of Essential Oils, is back on the podcast with a new book available for preor...

A Focused Mind: How to Enter a Deep Work State, Start Focusing in One Direction, and Live a More Productive Life

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Young, former Finding Genius guest and author of Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, shares...

Busting Breast Cancer and Breaking Open the Multi-Billion Dollar Industry That is Breast Cancer Treatment

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What if everything we have been told about breast cancer prevention is wrong? Dr. Susan Wadia-Ells, author of the new book, Busting Breast Cancer: Fiv...

Math Versus Cancer: Could Mathematics Provide Oncologists with the Perfect Formula for Brain Cancer Treatment?

21 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Can mathematics really be applied to brain cancer treatment? Dr. Kristin Swanson, Vasek, and Anna Maria Polak Professor in Cancer Research at Mayo Cli...

Masks, Vaccines, and Lung Damage: An inside View of the Evolving Fight Against Covid-19 in The Netherlands

20 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How is the rest of the world responding to the Covid-19 pandemic and how is the virus itself changing over time? Jim Bijl, Finding Genius listener and...

Genetics Versus Calories: Is a Person's Weight Determined by their DNA or by the Amount of Food They Consume?

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do genes affect your health? Dr. Yael Joffe, Adjunct Professor of nutrigenomics at Rutgers University and Chief Scientific Officer at 3x4 Genetics...

The Link Between Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Lipids, and Cardiovascular Disease: Metabolic Syndrome Explained

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is Metabolic Syndrome and how is it related to obesity and Type 2 Diabetes? Vivian Tran, Ph.D. candidate in the Vascular Biology and Immunopharma...

Sex Workers, Aspirin, and AIDS: Could this Combination of Factors be the Key to More Effective HIV Prevention?

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Could female Kenyan sex workers be the key to preventing HIV spread on a much larger scale? Keith Fowke, Head of the Department of Medical Microbiolo...

Can the Course of Science be Altered by Money? Conflicts of Interest: The Effects of Corporate Influence on Scientific Research

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Who pays for scientific studies and what types of biases can the matter of this funding create? Professor Sheldon Krimsky, author of Conflicts of Inte...

Can Cancer Be Driven to Extinction?

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"There may not be a cure for cancer, but there may be a strategy, a set of principles that can lead to the eradication of cancer," says Dr. Robert A ...

From Koalas with Chlamydia to Contagious Cancer in Tasmanian Devils: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What can wildlife research teach us about the nature of life, death, and disease? Carolyn Hogg, Senior Research Manager for the Australasian Wildlife ...

Bacteriophage Therapy: How Canine Skin Infection Research Could Find the Answer to the Growing Problem of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

14 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Can recurring skin infections in dogs be effectively treated without the use of antibiotics? Stephanie Lynch, Ph.D. Researcher at La Trobe University ...

Ketosis Explained: Is the Ketogenic Diet Just Another Weight Loss Fad or Could It Actually Fight Cancer?

13 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The link between a keto diet and weight loss is very well known, but can this approach to nutrition really be used to heal chronic disease? Dr. David ...

The Electrically Isolated Cell and the Birth of Cancer

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why is there anything but cancer? If we are nothing but a collection of individual cells, and if individual cells are perfectly competent at fulfilli...

Goodnight Cancer: Can Controlling Circadian Rhythms Enable the Innate Immune System to Eradicate Cancer Cells?

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to synchronize the biological clocks of immune cells and tumor cells to bypass cancer's ability to avoid the human body's defense syste...

Apitherapy Benefits: The Use of Bee Farming Products to Treat Lots of Diseases from Canker Sores to Cancer

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Can bee stings really treat common human medical ailments like pain, inflammation, or even cancer? Dr. Janos Zsolt Kormendy Racz, President of the Hun...

The Disorder Formerly Known as Juvenile Diabetes: The Complexity of Type 1 Diabetes

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are Type 1 Diabetes symptoms the same as Type 2 Diabetes symptoms? Can Type 1 Diabetes treatments be applied successfully to Type 2 Diabetes? Dr. Jo...

Honey Bee Trait Balancing Act Apiary Management with Krispn Given

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The biggest challenge in breeding honey bees? Keeping the right balance of desirable traits in colonies, from mite biting to pollinating behaviors, re...

Intention Setting and Diabetes: Effective Measures to Treat Endocrinology Diseases with Topher Fox

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"We're wired to change the world," remarks Dr. Topher Fox as he discusses best practices for reversing and preventing type 2 diabetes. Like many doct...

Cancer Epigenetics: The Key to Combating Cancer?

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Could the study of cancer epigenetics lead to new, specific, and more effective drug therapies for cancer? Manel Esteller, MD, PhD seems to think it ...

Counter Terrorism is Out; Cyber Warfare is In: The Future of War in The Current Modern Era and Beyond

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Can we ever truly prepare ourselves for the next war? How can new technological advancements be effectively countered when the next technology is alwa...

Cosmic Mysteries: From Aliens to Cancer Treatments, The Timeless Importance of the Study of Physics

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are we alone in the universe? Society's popular view on the possibility of life existing on other planets has completely reversed over the past few de...

Ants, Ants, and More Ants: What Research on Ants can Teach us about Ourselves and our Future as a Species

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Should ants be considered unsightly pests or ecological saviors? Before you decide to eradicate the ant hills from your backyard, take the time to lea...

Shining a Light on COVID-19 Virus Detection

06 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Out with the old, in with the new COVID-19 virus detection method? A faster, more cost-effective, and more sensitive test may soon replace the status ...

AI in Healthcare: Artificial Intelligence is the Way to Advance into the Next Era of Medical Technology

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Could artificial intelligence be used in clinical drug trials? Is AI really capable of making the overall process easier and allowing the advancement ...

The Cutting Edge of Cancer Therapy Treatment: Expanding Medical Care and Saving Lives, One Gene at a Time

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What if it were possible to use the science behind evolution and cancer to develop highly personalized cancer medications capable of targeting cancer...

How Ants Run the Rainforest: Ant Ecosystems with Entomologist Terry McGlynn

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"Here you have to look for ants, but in the rainforest, they find you," says Professor McGlynn, as he describes his efforts to make it to a Costa Rica...

Fine-Tuning Carcinogenesis Pathology: Jyotsna Batra Talks Genetic Cancer Predictors

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"A tumor is certainly smarter than humans," says researcher Jyotsna Batra, discussing the ability of some tumors to change behaviors and progress thro...

Cancer-Controlling Gene Circuits: Update on Cancer Cure Research with Gabor Balazsi

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Most cancer therapies focus on killing cells, but researcher Gabor Balazsi is trying a different approach: he's creating gene circuits to change canc...

The Hibernating Cancer Cell: Significant Find in Prostate Cancer Research with Kenneth Pienta

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What do zebra mussels and cancer cells have in common? Researchers consider each invasive forces. About ten years ago, oncologists recast cancer in ev...

The Non-Coding RNA Puzzle: Barak Rotblat Discusses New Class of RNA Molecules

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What separates us from a mouse? It may be our large load of long non-coding RNA. Barak Rotblat and his team research what was previously thought of a...

Ridding Your Body of Mercury: Mercury Toxicity in Humans with Dr. Bill McGraw

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After years of stubborn insomnia that left doctors stumped, Bill McGraw started his own search. He learned about metal poisoning and a test revealed m...

Time to Teach Biology and Other Sciences with a More Mindful Approach: Life is Science and Science is Life

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What makes science so difficult for people of all ages to grasp? Why do so many of us feel so intimidated by the subject? Melanie Peffer, Ph.d, has cr...

How to Starve a Tumor: Cancer Treatment Research Assesses Metabolic Pathways

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What do tumor cells use for food? Researcher Christos Chinopoulos discusses a brand new technology called Reverse Phase Protein Array (RPPA) that quan...

Macular Degeneration Meets its Match: Multiple Use Eye technologies with Ocutrx Technologies

31 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Place a fist in front of your eyes: that's what someone with macular degeneration sees. But Mike Freeman and his brother have created a new medical te...

More-than-Medicine Diabetes Care: Endocrinologist Arti Thangudu Talks Effective Treatments

30 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If lifestyle has a major impact on your health, shouldn't doctors address it in meaningful ways? Arti Thangudu believes partnering with patients to tr...

A New Take on Treating Mental Health Issues: The Benefits of Psilocybin and Plant Medicine in Conjunction with Energy Healing

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What exactly is plant medicine? Can Psilocybin and other psychedelic medicinal plants really help treat mental health issues? Nadia Doe's plant medi...

Cancer's Ancient Achilles Heel: How to Starve Cancer Cells to Death

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"The lack of knowledge in the oncology field is profound, which contributes to tremendous suffering and death…Our research at Boston College is deve...

An Evolutionary Arms Race Between Bees and Viruses: Who Will Win?

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to breed a species of bee with total viral immunity? Maybe, and the research being done in Michelle Flenniken's lab could pave the way ...

Fortifying Honey Bee Colonies with Researcher Jay Evans

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bees are not alone in their fight to survive. While the backyard beekeeper might start with a pollinator garden, researchers are also busy strengtheni...

Stemming the Sting of Fire Ants: Pest Management Strategies with USDA's David H. Oi

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It just takes one sting to make sure your eyes are on the ground in fire-ant country. Walking across a field in the southern United States often inclu...

Ants From Every Angle, Across the Globe

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us dread the sight of an ant in the kitchen, and might squash it without pause. But what if we knew that a single ant is just one part of an '...

High-Frequency Mechanical Signals as a Surrogate for Exercise

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Astronauts in microgravity environments lose 2-3% of their bone mass per month. To put that in perspective, adults over the age of about 35 lose 2-3% ...

All About Anesthesia with Jon Lowrance

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine having a grand mal seizure while whitewater kayaking on a frigid river; you wake up and manage your way toward the shore, but you're dazed and...

On the Other Side of the Sugar High: Understanding Diabetic Hypoglycemia

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's been nearly 100 years since insulin was first used in the treatment of diabetes—a life-changing medical advancement for those who have diabetes...

Supplement Sommeliers: Micronutrient Deficiency and Therapy with Mira and Jayson Calton

24 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine being told as a young adult that you're suffering from osteoporosis so advanced that your bones are that of an 80-year-old. That's what happen...

The Great Reset, or the New Great Depression?—An Economic Examination of the Response to COVID-19

23 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pop quiz: what's seven trillion dollars times zero? The current amount of economic stimulus in the American economy. Despite printing four trillion do...

Part 2 of 2: The History of Corruption Repeats Itself: Understanding the Mechanisms and Logistics Behind Global Power and Persuasion

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"If you imagine the mind as a piece of unshaped clay, and if I'm the first person to get in there on a particular topic and mold the clay, I am so far...

Part 1 of 2: The History of Corruption Repeats Itself: Understanding the Mechanisms and Logistics Behind Global Power and Persuasion

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"The reason we can get away with these outrageous lies we tell is that the average person can't imagine lying on that scale because it's just complete...

More Tools in the Type 1 Diabetes Belt with Michael J. Haller

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Fascinating and frustrating: two words that Dr. Haller uses to describe researching how type 1 diabetes evolves within the human endocrine system. Ty...

Ownership as the Remote Control of Your Life: Can You Push the Buttons?

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's a universal truth: one of the first words a baby speaks is "Mine!" Ownership governs everything in our lives. Hundreds of times each day, we enco...

Politics Playing Medicine: A Closer Look at COVID-19

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"I felt I had to stand up and be heard at least by the local council; it was never my intention that the video clip would go viral internationally…....

A Brain Boost for Your Health and Life

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"One of my mottos is 'no brain left behind', and I love the most complex cases," says Kristen Willeumier. Surprisingly, some of those complex cases ca...

Telehealth Technology Breaking the Barrier of Geography

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Digital stethoscopes, otoscopes, home hemodialysis programs, video conferencing, electronic consults…you name it: digital healthcare technologies a...

Stellar Gaia Discoveries with Timo Prusti of the European Space Agency

17 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How many stars in the sky? Gaia astronomer Timo Prusti is more qualified than most to posit an answer. He helps manage the project undertaken by the ...

Making Sense of Sequencing: Exome Sequencing Analysis and What's Next with Dr. Daniel Geschwind

16 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Daniel Geschwind Bio: Dr. Geschwind is the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics, Neurology and Psychiatry at...

Hardwired for the Impossible: Human Performance Tools with Steven Kotler

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you think that intense, beneficial states of flow are only for extreme athletes? Not true, says Steven Kotler. In fact, we all have the tools for t...

Judged by a Number: Living with Type 1 Diabetes with Amber Clour

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Diagnosed just a few weeks past her eight birthday, it wasn't until she was an adult that she realized how isolated she had always felt as a result of...

Stopping Superbugs: Steffanie Strathdee Talks Phage Therapy Research

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"This is the worse superbug you can get," said her husband's doctors when diagnosing him with a life-threatening multidrug resistant bacterial infecti...

Artificial Intelligence Meets Ultrasound: Caption Health's Kilian Koepsell Explains

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Imaging a heart is both crucial and challenging, but Caption Health has fine-tuned artificial intelligence healthcare to make ultrasound imaging more...

Science Unzipped: Dr. Kat Arney Talks Science Communication and Book on Cancer Research

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How many podcasters does it take to evaluate the modern science field? Well, this conversation presents an intriguing attempt by two to do just that. ...

The Death Rattle of Citrus Plants: Understanding a Unique RNA Plant Virus

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past century, one virus has been responsible for the death of over 100 million trees in the world, posing an agricultural problem particularl...

Hopelessly Queenless: Adaptations in the Social Life of Western Honey Bees with Gene Robinson

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Honey bees are one of the most fascinating and complex social organisms on our planet. Scientists like Gene Robinson research how their genomics play...

Not so in the Dark: A Glimpse Into the Experience of Blindness

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Find what you're capable of doing, and double down on it until you do it well…and also, always try to get along with other people. These were the tw...

High-Altitude Ants: The Evolutionary Biology of a Himalayan Species and More with Dr. Himender Bharti

10 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Even in the wind-swept, mountainous regions of Himalaya, ants move forward in their rugged life cycles. Dr. Himender Bharti shares how these ants surv...

Utilizing Mycoviruses for Healthy Plants: Shinyi Marzano Researches Fungal Viruses

09 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

That grey fuzz you find on your strawberries after a day or two in the fridge has researchers busy in the lab. White and grey molds often harm crops a...

Digitizing the Body for 3D Movement Analysis

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Twelve infrared cameras lining the perimeter of the ceiling, treadmills equipped with force plates, and high-speed video cameras: this is what you'd f...

The Quantum Theory of Mayan Cosmology: Carl Johan Calleman Talks Evolution of the Mind

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Author Carl Johan Calleman talks about his most recent book, Quantum Science of Psychedelics: The Pineal Gland, Multidimensional Reality, and Mayan C...

Global Health Laws and Reform Amid COVID-19

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Every continent on the planet has now been touched by the COVID-19 virus, launching the world into an unprecedented state of lockdowns and the many n...

Artificial Photosynthesis for Fuel: Solar Energy Conversion Technology with Amanda J. Morris

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What if we could produce an energy-dense carbon-neutral fuel that suits uses of fossil fuels? Researchers like Amanda Morris are working with differen...

Turning on Happy Genes Adjusting Gene Expression with Dr. J. Dunn's Genetic Testing Program

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Like a lot of health practitioners, Dr. J. Dunn's quest to heal from her own lifelong conditions of depression and chronic fatigue brought her to a fo...

Evidence of Ant Cooperation: Interdependent Ant Habitats with Aniek Ivens

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that ants actually keep and "milk" livestock? Evolutionary ecologist Aniek Ivens shares this tidbit and more alluring ant facts in this e...

The Jaws of an Ant's Life

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The snapping of the trap-jaw ant's jaw is one of the fastest animal movements known to man—approximately three times as fast as the fastest cheetah....

Portugal's Cave: Piecing Together a Narrative, Illuminating the Lives of Modern Human Ancestors

03 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stupid, brutish, and primitive: that's the "caveman" stereotype that's been applied to Neanderthals time after time. But it's the same stereotype that...

Ant Associations with Professor David Richard Nash

02 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does an ant have in common with a human? Probably a whole lot more than you would expect. Tune in for a compelling conversation with David Richar...

A Fully Functional, Bioartificial Kidney In the Near Future

01 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The kidney may be one of the most underestimated organs: it's incredibly complex, and responsible for five to seven key functions in the body. In addi...

Performance Herbalism with Logan Christopher

01 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Struggling to sleep? Want more energy? Want to focus for longer periods of time? Interested in natural ways of improving your life, but unsure where t...

Ant Invasion: Understanding and Examining Invasive Ant Species

31 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bees as ant trackers? Turning off a species' immune or motor neuron system? Drones used for precision delivery of products? These are just a couple of...

Diving Into Lipid Droplets, Exploring Early Viral Infections

30 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Can the immune response to viral infection be strengthened to the point that the impact of the infection is greatly reduced, and later or latent inf...

The Bee's Needs and Behavior: A Conversation with a Honey Bee Expert

30 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"…Their society and community is so complicated, that in fact you cannot really have a straight answer for why something is happening. You need to s...

From a Vision to a Prototype: Understanding the First Human Bionic Eye

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The world's first human bionic eye is here, which means several conditions leading to blindness might (eventually) not be. What does it look like? Ho...

An Ant's Life: Amazing Ant Habitats and Ecology with Tom Fayle

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's easy to overlook an ant, but look again. As one not-so-small part of the ecological role of insects, ants have a profound impact, from their mutu...

Busy Bee Stressors: Tracking Bee Hive Data with William G. Meikle

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bees can generate five pounds of honey a day under prime nectar-gathering conditions. Numerous factors make that possible and researchers like William...

The Four Ps and the Plights Affecting Bees

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Pesticides, poor nutrition, pests, and parasites: these are the four factors influencing bee health around the world, and the amount of information we...

Targeting Rhabdoviruses and Related Pathogens with Yves Gaudin

27 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The rabies virus kills at least 60,000 people a year, worldwide. Because it is far more prevalent in lower economic status countries, it doesn't recei...

Bee Happy: Maximizing Honey Bee Characteristics for Healthy Bees with Juliana Rangel Posada

26 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The queen bee has to get it right when she mates, because she only has one intense mating session for the duration of her life. The queen bee's anatom...