Tuesday, May 02, 2006

News from the world of science

Land of Cool Findings: how bees make collective decisions. It turns out to be an incredibly effective way of assessing everybody's commitment to the possible choices, and thus picking the best.

Land of Potential Importance: a powerful new antibiotic identified from wallaby milk. They say it's 100 times more effective than penicillin. Can we do a better job of using this one judiciously, say by keeping it out of animal feed??

(via Rebecca's Pocket)

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