Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Bees join hunt for serial killers/ BBC News, 30 July 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7530666.stm

"The way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down serial killers, scientists believe. Just as bees forage some distance away from their hives, so murderers avoid killing near their homes, says the University of London team. This "geographic profiling" works so well in bees, the scientists say future experiments on the animals could now be fed back to improve crime-solving.The team's work is reported in the Royal Society journal Interface.