Researchers have discovered some factors linked to brain size in back-boned animals ... animals may not apply. “Most bee brains are smaller than a grain of rice,” said Elizabeth Tibbetts ...

But you may have missed the smaller bees—some the size of a grain of rice—that also play a big role in pollination. In a study in journal the of the Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, ...

Built from flexible PVDF films and weighing just 46 milligrams, the harvester, which is lighter than a grain of rice, produces impressive energy outputs while letting the bees hover, flip ...

is to embrace the thousands of North American wild bee species, which are excellent pollinators, rarely sting, and are typically the size of a grain of rice. The drawback for some people is that ...