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

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

A century ago, a psychologist named Wolfgang Köhler proved that chimpanzees could solve complex ...

According to research published today in Science, bumblebees are capable of the same goal-oriented problem-solving. To test ...

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 ...

Noting that science-based problem solving should take an inclusive approach, Manu Prakash, professor at Stanford University, said people should have access to the right set of tools. He was talking at ...

One of the ways we try to understand the origins of human intelligence is by looking at its equivalents elsewhere in the animal world. But doing so turns out to be more complicated than it might seem.

Researchers have developed a new, data-driven machine-learning technique that speeds up software programs used to solve complex optimization problems that can have millions of potential solutions.