How Bee Swarms Keep Their Shape (video)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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A team of Harvard University researchers spent months shaking and rattling swarms of thousands of honey bees to better understand how bees collectively collaborate to stabilize structures in the presence of external loads.

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Credit: Jacob Peters, Orit Peleg/Harvard University

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