There’s a million-dollar prize for proving the Riemann hypothesis. Claude couldn’t pull that off, but it made significant progress on a related problem ...

Overstory prevents a major cause of wildfires. But before the company could avert tragedy, it had to survive one of its own.

Conversations at the summit interconnected, revealing how topics like AI, cybersecurity, and resilience collectively address healthcare's real-world challenges. Focus shifted from debating AI's ...

Try solving visual puzzles used to sort humans from bots and see how they’ve gotten harder as AI has gotten smarter.

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer. By Kenneth Chang Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the ...

As the adage goes, “big things come in tiny packages.” Just ask the humble bumblebee. A team of researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland published a research paper on June 4, suggesting that ...

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 ...

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 ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...