Bees solved a math problem that took humans two thousand years to prove. A honeycomb is a nursery and a pantry, and the hexagon is the shape that stores the most honey with the least wax. In this video you learn: why only triangles, squares and hexagons can tile a flat surface with no gaps — and why the hexagon wins; why beeswax is so expensive that bees burn about eight pounds of honey to make a single pound of it; and the twist — bees don't draw hexagons at all, their body heat and surface tension shape the cells for them, a fact mathematicians only proved in 1999.
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