Despite its tiny brain, the bumblebee is capable of solving complex problems on a dime, reshaping our view of the humble ...

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

Researchers in Finland have revealed that bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) can solve an insect version of the classic "box-and ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable ...

For nearly eight decades, some of the sharpest minds in mathematics stared at a deceptively simple question about dots on a flat surface and couldn’t crack it. An AI just did. OpenAI announced that ...

Discover how artificial intelligence evolved over a century through periods of innovation, AI winters, and the deep learning ...

Only a few months ago, the question felt mostly philosophical: if artificial intelligence can help solve open math problems, what happens to the idea of human genius? That question is no longer ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the table, bench and floor. It’s a chaotic – but functional – solution to the ...