Space startup Wyvern wants to make data about Earth’s health much more accessible – TechCrunch

The private space industry is seeing a revolution driven by cube satellites, which are affordable, lightweight satellites that are much easier than traditional satellites to design, build and launch. It’s paving the way for new businesses like Wyvern, an Alberta-based startup that provides a very specific service that wouldn’t even have been possible to offer…

scientists taught bees to understand numbers

Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do with Arabic and Roman numerals. Honeybees have learnt to associate signs with numerosities. Scarlett Howard, Author provided Human language and mathematics…