(2010-12-15) Elementary Students Publish Bee Study

A class of Elementary School students published a paper about Bees in the BiologyLetters journal. This study, Lotto admitted, was not sophisticated enough to be published in a top-tier journal. The students did not consult existing scientific literature or perform complicated statistical analyses. But as someone who had previously studied perception in bees, he knew that it was original, high-quality research. It also, Lotto added, flew in the face of some funding agencies that had turned down the project based on the idea young people cannot do real science.