Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees utilized tools to solve complex problems to win a sugary treat, even if they ...

Amazon's AI leaderboard sparked a tokenmaxxing trend that raised concerns about AI usage metrics, workplace productivity, and how companies measure the success of AI tools. Joshua Brown/Pexels ...

Amazon has been quietly deploying a new data center networking architecture called Resilient Network Graphs, or RNG, across its cloud infrastructure since late 2024. Noah Berger/Getty Images via ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Regardless of how much you paid for a device, it's always frustrating when it starts misbehaving — and it's even worse if you don't have a solution. Considering a device like the Amazon Fire TV can be ...

Whether it’s razor-sharp santoku knives or expertly-designed coffee gear, some of our favorite kitchen tools are designed and made in Japan. You might think it’s either really difficult or super ...