Australian researchers have shown that bees can distinguish nothing from various positive numbers. Nigel Cattlin / Alamy As a mathematical concept, the idea of zero is relatively new in human ...

The concept of zero may seem easy to you, but many human societies struggled with the idea. However, some of the world's smartest animals understand zero, and now that group includes the honey bee.

There is much concern over the dwindling population of honey bees. They are needed for pollination and for ecosystems to stay in balance, but soon researchers could use their understanding of how the ...

If someone calls you a zero, you know it’s a diss without even having to think about it. You know right away that it means they think you’re nothing, smaller than any number. But humans aren’t the ...

Bees seem to understand the idea of zero – the first invertebrate shown to do so. When the insects were encouraged to fly towards a platform carrying fewer shapes than another one, they apparently ...