A backyard bee with roughly 1 million neurons can recognize a human face using almost no computing power at all, and what scientists built to prove it is now drawing serious attention from AI engineers

Every summer, bees drift through American backyards by the millions, landing on flowers, hovering, tilting, and darting away. Most people barely register them. But something is happening inside those tiny bodies that scientists have only just begun to fully map, and the implications reach far beyond gardens or honey or pollination. It reaches into the ... Read more