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Scientists Finally Figure Out How Bees Fly

January 11, 2006 |

Science rocks.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the human drive to understand our world is more powerful then the urge to live in ignorance and believe in superstitious nonsense. We live in a mysterious world whose mysteries we can’t help but try to crack. The magnificence of our achievements is that for every mystery we unravel, we uncover another mystery and yet we keep pushing the limits of our understanding and keep striving to find truth.

Nonsensical Ravings: 0
Science: +1

Proponents of intelligent design, which holds that a supreme being rather than evolution is responsible for life’s complexities, have long criticized science for not being able to explain some natural phenomena, such as how bees fly.
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Now scientists have put this perplexing mystery to rest.

Using a combination of high-speed digital photography and a robotic model of a bee wing, the researchers figured out the flight mechanisms of honeybees.

“For many years, people tried to understand animal flight using the aerodynamics of airplanes and helicopters,” said Douglas Altshuler, a researcher at California Institute of Technology. “In the last 10 years, flight biologists have gained a remarkable amount of understanding by shifting to experiments with robots that are capable of flapping wings with the same freedom as the animals.”

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