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We’ve learned that bees may communicate through a quantum dance. But they also know something we don’t: the color of a flower indicates how warm the nectar inside it is. That doesn’t mean much to us, but it’s important to know if you’re a bee, because eating their food warm can mean the difference between life and death.

In LiveScience.com, Sara Goudarzi quotes Lars Chittka, writing in the journal Nature, as saying that, from a bee’s point of view, “if you need to warm up, you can produce your own heat, at the expense of some of your energy reserves?or you can consume a warm drink, and save on investing your own energy.”
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UPDATE – One thing that has long puzzled researchers is the small number of people who are infected with the HIV virus but don’t come down with AIDS. UPDATE: New research breakthroughs may mean that soon, people with AIDS may be able to stave off the effects of the disease by taking regular doses of a protein that prevents deterioration of the immune system.

In Africa, around one in 300 cases of people with HIV do not go on to get AIDS. Canadian studies show that, in the West at least, these cases may be around 1% to 2% of all infected people.
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When we go to Wal-Mart and other stores?even fast food restaurants?we notice that the employees seem a lot older than they used to be. Spending your last years relaxing on a beach in Florida is becoming a thing of the past, and more than one of every five Americans age 62 and older who expected to retire is still working.

Part of this is due to stock market failures that have affected people?s pensions and savings, as well as social security payments that are too low to live on. It turns out that most people aren’t even PLANNING to retire anymore.
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Just a few years after the last solar cycle ended, there is evidence that the next one, which is expected to be the biggest in 50 years, may have already begun. Sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections disrupt radio and telecommunications, including cell phones, and if they become strong enough, they can be especially dangerous for astronauts. They can also have effects on the weather, if powerful enough. Large sunspots, which reduce the amount of solar heat reaching the earth, can cause cooling, while coronal mass ejections may have the opposite effect. Since several countries plan to travel to the moon in a few years, excessive solar activity could delay their trips.
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