--- title: Five Best: A Probiotic May Help Save the Bees description: A probiotic that’s in your morning yogurt could save the honey bees, science’s next breakthrough will be made by an amateur and more. canonical: https://time.com/4826475/a-probiotic-may-help-save-the-bees/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-21T16:00:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:44.794Z article:section: Ideas og:title: A Probiotic May Help Save the Bees og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4826475/a-probiotic-may-help-save-the-bees/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Probiotic May Help Save the Bees twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Probiotic May Help Save the Bees by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 21, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 21, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how the same probiotic that’s in your morning yogurt could save the honey bees.** ](https://www.lawsonresearch.ca/news/probiotics-could-improve-survival-rates-honey-bees-exposed-pesticide) By the _Lawson Health Research Institute_ **2\.** [**Science’s next great breakthrough will probably be made by an amateur.** ](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/will-next-scientific-discovery-amateur-180963665/) By Nathan Hurst in _Smithsonian_ **3\.** [**Could the Amazon-Whole Foods deal change the way we get our food?** ](http://civileats.com/2017/06/20/will-the-amazon-whole-foods-deal-mean-better-food-for-all/) By Steve Holt in _Civil Eats_ **4\.** [**We need Tunisia in the fight against ISIS. So why cut aid to the country?** ](http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/?fa=71311) By Sarah Yerkes at the _Carnegie Endowment for International Peace_ **5\.** [**Talent agencies want to solve Hollywood’s diversity problem.**](https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2017/06/15/how-hollywoods-agencies-are-trying-to-fix-the-diversity-problem/#61d0780440fa) By Madeline Berg in _Forbes_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4826475/a-probiotic-may-help-save-the-bees/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4826475/a-probiotic-may-help-save-the-bees/"},"headline":"A Probiotic May Help Save the Bees","datePublished":"2017-06-21T16:00:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:44.794Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4826475/a-probiotic-may-help-save-the-bees/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Amazon","Innovation","Bees","ISIS","Diversity","Science"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4826475/a-probiotic-may-help-save-the-bees/","name":"A Probiotic May Help Save the Bees"}}]}] ```