The bees had to roll the ball under a blue "flower," then stand atop the moved object to access a sweet treat. Mikko Törmänen / University of Oulu Some bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, a ...

As a resource specialist program teacher, I often work with students who know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide during isolated math practice, but completely freeze when those same skills ...

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 ...

I’ll go on record saying that while I did enjoy Control, I didn’t love it. In certain parts, it was absolutely brilliant. The Ashtray Maze, of course, remains one of the best and most memorable ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Wall Street Journal housing policy reporter Rebecca Picciotto about measures that lawmakers are trying to pass to address a shortage of affordable housing, ...

The Democratic National Committee’s 2024 autopsy, which is a report on why the Democrats lost, was released after significant pressure to do so — and it’s left Democrats and critics shocked by its ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

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