Robot Bees Take Wing
Posted on August 10th, 2018 by Mary Lord
Without bees to pollinate flowers, there would be no fruit to harvest. As bee deaths outpace the hives’ ability to regenerate — in 2016, the United States lost 44 percent of all honeybee colonies — farmers have turned to researchers for help. One partial solution already is in the works: an insect-sized drone capable of artificial pollination.
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Al Siedlecki — known as “Sie” to his students — has taught science at Medford Memorial Middle School in New Jersey for more than three decades. But a few years back, as Sie was helping a group of students study for a test, something happened that in all his years in the classroom had never occurred before: a former student called to thank him for inspiring a love of science — and career as a neurosurgeon. Hear their StoryCorps tale.
