As our simulation results point to a potentially important role of messenger workers in spreading the queen pheromone, we next investigated the responses of receiver bees to pheromone-carrying workers. As the formation of the queen retinue is based on the ability of workers to sense and orient to...
The Hidden Costs of Asynchrony As argued earlier, email helped solve a practical problem generated by the growing size of offices: the need for efficient asynchronous communication—that is, a fast way to send messages back and forth without requiring the sender and receiver to be communicating at...