Bees Act Like Serial Killers

Bumblebees foraging for food avoid stopping at flowers too close to home, perhaps to avoid attracting predators. Known as geographic profiling, this science has allowed scientists to locate the entrance to a hive by mapping which flowers the bees visit.

It is now being used to predict where serial killers might live based on where they commit crimes. Murderers operate fairly close to home, but maintain a kill-free “buffer zone.”

Loud Bar = More Beer

Research found that when bar music was louder, alcohol consumption rose.

Researchers think 1) loud music may energize and excite bar-hoppers, encouraging binging; or 2) it was too loud to talk, so people focused more on drinking.

Ancients Made Beer Medicine

The American Journal of Physical Anthropology reports that the antibiotic tetracycline was found in bones of a Nubian mummy buried 1,600 years ago in Sudan — long before scientists discovered tetracycline, in 1948.

But so what?

Nubians were skilled brewers. A bacterium, Streptomyces, secrets Tetracycline. So researchers believe that Nubians purposely made medicinal beer by using grain contaminated with antibiotic-producing Streptomyces bacteria.