Discovered: British bee output plummets; documentarians stumble on polar bear sanctuary; how E. coli learned to attack plants; new spiders discovered dwelling in Brazilian trees.
Beekeepers in Ribeauville, France, were puzzled about why their bees were producing honey that came out green and blue ... until they found a biogas plant processing Mars candy waste some two-and-a-half miles away.
Discovered: Scientists debunk the discovery of new life, blame your friends for your weight fluctuations, a citizen science project finds that bees are disappearing from cities, and scientists teach flies to count.
Discovered: Rapid fire evolution in a Connecticut pond, why pesticides are killing the bees, the best new species on the planet, and butterflies have gotten snobby.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
Discovered in Green: Organic farming isn't always sustainable, another thing that's hurting the honey-bees, warming oceans are melting glaciers, and some trees grow better in dirty cities.
The New York Times on the U.S.'s energy boom and the fate of nuclear energy, The Guardian on bees, AccuWeather on icebergs, and the Associated Press on seals
Discovered in green: This common pesticide is most definitely killing the bees, a greener way to make plastics, a new type of electricity powered alternative fuel and getting to space on a few drops of fuel.
Discovered: the dangers of headphones for pedestrians, troubling obesity rate numbers, our sun's future, and the impact of medical marijuana on traffic accidents.
Discovered: A molecule that could cool our warming Earth, what's killing all the bees, fat tastes good, a cancer-processed food link.
Here at The Atlantic Wire, we respect and value the social media editors who share the links that make our jobs easier. Sometimes, though, we have no idea what they're talking about. So after a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorites.
On Twitter, it wasn't just the heat that was disorienting on Tuesday
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