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

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

Scientists observe bumblebees rolling a ball underneath a flower to get sugar, showing complex problem-solving abilities.

In 2024, Olli Loukola of the Finland co-authored a study demonstrating that bumblebees could cooperate to solve complex ...

Some bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, a discovery that further underscores the colorful creatures’ sophisticated ...

Movie S4. Task solution in Experiment 3. This movie shows a bee solving the task in Experiment 3. The beginning of the video (habituation phase, without the ball present) is shown at accelerated speed ...

Bumblebees were able to complete several new object-manipulation tasks in a series of groundbreaking experiments.

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

Kiley Pappas, a fifth-grader at Quail Run Elementary School, likes to jump off things. Unfortunately, jumping off swings and boxes can be both problematic and painful. Kiley has broken both her arm ...

Critics of artificial intelligence caution that, as a relatively new technology, its long-term effects on the human brain are still unknown. But a new study shows that AI could be dangerous even in ...

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