Determining which substance has actually been produced in a test tube or flask is one of the central tasks of chemistry. Particularly in the case of complex or novel compounds, however, this can be ...

End-to-end multimodal structure elucidation from raw spectra combining contrastive learning and evolutionary algorithms”. Nature Communications, 2026. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73846-y ...

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 ...

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 ...

Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees ...

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 ...

The following is a guest piece written by Alison Steinlauf Anziska, senior vice president of Marketing at Edmunds. Opinions are the author’s own. Marketing attracts the most creative minds, but even ...