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 ...

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 ...

For someone who has been at the piano for seventy years, Emanuel Ax shouldn’t be so worried about performing. “I get terribly nervous when I play,” he said softly, standing on the stage at WQXR’s ...

We travel across the world to rank each continent by its deadliest snakes, not by venom alone, but by how many human lives they actually claim. While some of the most toxic species rarely bite people, ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Solve Intelligence, the AI platform for the $200B+ patent industry, has raised $40M in Series B funding and is launching a new product for generating patent claim charts. Solve’s Series B comes just ...

The new round, which follows a $12 million Series A earlier this year, includes participation from Thomson Reuters and the founder of Quinn Emanuel’s IP litigation practice. Solve Intelligence ...