we should send contaminated insects to Mars

> Each bee is equipped with a 2-mm-wide QR Code

I'm not sure why but this sentence feels vaguely menacing.

2mm QR codes according to the article:

> The protocol used at Fukushima is automated. Each bee is equipped with a 2-mm-wide QR Code which is read by a camera, activating the opening of the maze.

But yeah, doesn't look like a QR code at all, are there possibly different variations of QR codes? Haven't heard about that myself.

TIL: Wikipedia does not have a standalone article for ArUco markers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARTag

OR try getting teenagers stung by them.

this isn't reddit

Yeah. How could 1950's science fiction be so wrong?

This gets you mice that are better at navigating mazes. The connection between that and general cognition or learning capacity is not as robust as you would hope. Just as likely they simply have better peripheral vision or something.

Scientific research causes cancer in mice.

That's actually a fact; there are specific bloodlines prone to cancers.

I can see a direct relation in this test, but it may be my lack of imagination or knowdledge...

Anyway, animals in islands without predators lose escape hability, in particular the dodo.