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Published online 3 December 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011206-4
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Honeycomb geometry helps dancing bees gather an audience.
If you want to catch someone's attention on the dance floor, it helps if you're dancing on a honeycomb. Vibrations from a dancing honeybee are naturally amplified by the hexagonal comb, a new study finds1.
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