<div dir="ltr">Just a very nice cross-disciplinary examination of how spiral and terrace patterns emerge in stingless bee colony architecture - ruled by the same equations as crystal formation. Neat!<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stingless-bees-build-spiral-honeycombs-grow-crystals-180975405/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stingless-bees-build-spiral-honeycombs-grow-crystals-180975405/</a>  <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2020.0187#RSIF20200187C20">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2020.0187#RSIF20200187C20</a>  <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sara Hellström</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">PhD Student</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Martin-Luther University</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">General Zoology</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">----</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2">mail: <a href="mailto:sara.hellstroem@zoologie.uni-halle.de" target="_blank">sara.hellstroem@zoologie.uni-halle.de</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2">tel: (00) 46 70 633 91 50</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2">Allgemeine Zoologie</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2">Hoher Weg 8</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2">06120 Halle</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div>