Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...

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Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that ...

In 2024, Olli Loukola of the Finland co-authored a study demonstrating that bumblebees could cooperate to solve complex challenges. It’s the kind of cognitive task scientists had previously only ...

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 ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why it matters.

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Credit: Science Advances (2026). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz2384 In the era of big data and artificial intelligence, a new approach has emerged for solving combinatorial optimization problems, which ...

Crows, ravens, and other corvids consistently rank among the most intelligent animals on Earth. These birds possess problem-solving abilities that rival those of great apes, despite having very ...