Cenk Uygur
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Quick Hits: Bee Drones, South Korean Impeachment, And More!
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March 12, 2017
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5:26Now PlayingRobot bees are a thing. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Ben Mankiewicz, and Judah Friedlander, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A team of Japanese researchers have succeeded in using a pocket-sized drone to pollinate a flower, taking the first steps towards creating a safety net for the world’s flora as honeybees continue to die at an alarming rate.
The artificial pollinator is the brainchild of Eijiro Miyako, a chemist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan. It entails attaching horsehair bristles to a remote-controlled drone the size of a power adapter, and coating the bristles with a special gel that allows them to gather pollen from flowers and distribute them as a honeybee would.
A video published by Science News shows the drone in action.
In a paper published in the science journal Chem, Miyako’s team explained the significance of their achievement.
“The global pollination crisis is a critical issue for the natural environment and our lives,” they wrote. “The need to develop an innovative pollination tool that does not require time and effort to achieve pollination with a high success rate is urgent.””*
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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Judah Friedlander
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