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

Across the higher education (HE) sector, academic institutions understand the importance of inclusion, belonging and diversity (see for example OECD and UNESCO). Yet one dimension which is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

India’s Union Budget 2026 allocates a little under one lakh forty thousand crore (₹1,39,289 crore) to education, an 8.27% increase over the previous year. However, this remains far below the 6% of GDP ...

Dr Jin Cheng (Jess Hong) pulls a Sir Isaac Newton move in the VR game in "3 Body Problem." Credit: Netflix If you're the type of person who yells "wey-oh!" if someone in a TV show says the name of the ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

In less than a decade, India built the world's most sophisticated retail payment infrastructure. UPI now processes over 500 million transactions a day, has been replicated or studied by central banks ...