New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...
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 ...
Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally ...
In a series of experiments, the fuzzy pollinators figured out how to use a ball as a tool to access a sugary treat. The study ...
In 2024, Olli Loukola of the Finland co-authored a study demonstrating that bumblebees could cooperate to solve complex challenges. It’s the kind of cognitive task scientists had previously only ...
Scientists observe bumblebees rolling a ball underneath a flower to get sugar, showing complex problem-solving abilities.
Latitude could be found by looking at the Sun and the stars. But longitude was much trickier, and many sailors ended up dead as a result.
The history of human progress is usually defined by brilliant minds solving the world's most pressing issues, but sometimes, that creative spark lands on something entirely unnecessary. We live in a ...