For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

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 ...

Ann Patchett’s new novel, “Whistler,” is a rare phenomenon in contemporary fiction: a novel both majestic and intimate, original and masterful in its structure, crystalline in its prose, revelatory in ...

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Clone the repo, run the gallery, then copy the closest example and replace the demo data with your own arrays. The examples are plain MATLAB files, so you can read them quickly and change them without ...

Abstract: Accurately solving discrete optimization problems is still a serious challenge for classical computing systems. Despite significant progress, it is still impossible to optimally solve ...

Actress Ann Robinson, best known for her role in the sci-fi classic "The War of the Worlds," has died. She was 96. Robinson, who played Sylvia Van Buren in the original film adaptation of the H.G.

Sibling dynamics can be tricky, and stardom can certainly amplify things. During a recent interview, Heart singer Ann Wilson detailed how she and Nancy Wilson manage to balance being both sisters and ...

Ann Wilson has been penning poetry lately. “I consider myself to be a lyricist, now, especially,” the Heart singer, 75, says. “I’m really getting off on writing poetry and prose.” That practice has ...