From assaults to suicide attempts, emergency calls can be a sign of problems that jails can’t handle on their own.

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 ...

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 ...

Quantum computers are not something you see in movies anymore. They are real. They are a major problem in how we keep things safe online. This includes our bank accounts, the way we talk to each other ...

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 ...

In 1742, a Prussian mathematician named Christian Goldbach wrote a letter to the great Leonhard Euler with a deceptively simple observation: every even number greater than 2 seems to be the sum of two ...

I cut my teeth getting grounded in principles of design thinking when I launched a strategic design MBA during my university teaching years. Design thinking is essentially a problem-solving process ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

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On October 30, 1942, a group of destroyer warships from the British Royal Navy hunted down a Nazi submarine near the Nile Delta. The warships pounded the submarine with underwater explosions until it ...