SCIENCE -BUSY BEES- SCHEME : STUDENTS MIGHTY ESSAY

'' CONSTITUTIONAL !WOW! CONVENTION '' : IN the highest of democratic traditions - and I truly kept this thought and plan to myself - the students of the world, Parents, Professors and Teachers :

Need to philosophize, think, mull, debate and then formulate a strong, build-to-last a Gibraltar rock foundation for The World Students Society. The Laws, the bye-laws, the rules, and the regulations need to come from the students, and students alone.

The Global Founder Framers of The World Students Society - have always believed in the genius of the global students - as very clever and very talented builders. Both for the present and the future generation of students.

TAKE the case of busy bees : Inside a hive, honeybees are talented construction workers - bright, industrious, collaborative and a little bit mysterious.

A NEW STUDY sheds more light on how they work together to make honeycomb, even when they start with a difficult foundation.

Honeycomb cells are wax structures that store honey inside a hive. They are also used as nurseries. The cells are arranged in hexagonal tessellation : a geometric pattern of six-sided units without gaps or overlap, allowing bees to store the most honey with the least amount of wax.

BUT how do so many bees - there can be tens of thousands in a single hive -work together to achieve such mathematical magnificence?

'' We're trying to tackle these questions by creating impossible puzzles for the bees,'' said Orit Peleg, an author of the study and an associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder.

It has long been known that bees are very good builders, said Golnar Gharooni-Fard, a postdoctoral fellow in applied mathematics at Harvard University and the study's lead author.

'' We also know that bees don't always have the luxury of building on flat surfaces,'' she added. So the researchers decided to make things difficult.

The 3D printed model honeycomb foundations. But some of the cells were a bit too small, and some had cells that were oversize.

The bees managed those anomalies by building their own wax cells on top. And in many cases, the bees' approaches were remarkably consistent across multiple tests.

When confronted with printed cells that were somewhat smaller than the average natural cells, the bees seemed to agree that they use wax to plug some parts of the 3D printed holes while leaving others open.

The researchers called this technique merging. When the man-made cells were bigger, the bees replicated the 3D printed pattern but constructed their wax cells at an angle.

They did this, the researchers say, possibly to ensure that the honey did not fall out. The researchers called this tactic tilting.

And when the 3D printed cells were three times as large as the ideal, the bees used a technique that the researchers called layering.

Each of the six corners of the 3D printed hexagons became the foundation for a single wax cell, leaving space for a seventh in the middle.

The World Students Society thanks Jacey Fortin.