A recent study from a Michigan State University Entomologist shows that heat causes a sharp hormonal spike in isolated honey bees, but social interactions and a key pheromone help prevent this stress response, revealing how bees stay resilient in a warming world.

A recent study argues that a medieval ophthalmologist who translated Greek works by Galen, Hippocrates, and Plato from Greek into Arabic played a pivotal role in shaping Western medical scholarship. The authors base their conclusion on their analysis and translation of a previously little-known treatise by Hunayn Ibn Ishaq written in a question-and-answer format. This treatise crowns ten other works by Hunayn regarded as landmarks in both Islamic and Western medical history. Hunayn, the authors maintain, offers detailed analyses of ocular anatomy, including the layers of the eye and the optic nerve, demonstrating advances that made lasting contributions to Arabic and Western medicine alike.