What determines which tasks bees perform in their colony? Biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the ...

All three kinesin transport families exhibit unexpectedly slow dissociation under load, explaining robust competition with dynein during bidirectional cargo transport.

Tasks must be reliably divided between the members of the community for it to function properly. While humans consciously organise and distribute tasks, there is no central planning in a bee colony.

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...