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This Bee’s a Whiz

March 9, 2026 Ulia Lopatin

Dot… dash… dot… dash… buzz?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Humans can use morse code. What about bees? Alexander Davidson and colleagues at Queen Mary University of London put bumblebees to the test. They showed forty bumblebees flashing yellow circles. A short flash of

Hearsight

May 27, 2021 Kimia Montazeri

A Black woman giving presentation with left-hand lifted to emphasis a point.

You heard what you … SAW?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying: PER-fect timing to per-FECT your presentation skills! You can’t SEE me talking right now – but would you hear my words differently if you could? Enter Hans Rutger Bosker and David Peeters