Young adults with cancer who participated in a one-on-one problem-solving intervention experienced improvements in anxiety, ...

Why do people make the choices they do? Researchers from the Center Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) at TUD Dresden University of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and the ...

Why is it that the more an athlete wins, the more the goalposts shift? Exploring how success reshapes expectations, normalizes greatness, and changes how athletes are judged over time. I watch a deep ...

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

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 ...

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 ...

One common misconception is that people can be defined by government assistance programs or economic status, when in reality communities are made up of individuals from all backgrounds, professions, ...

“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 ...

The 2018 Farm Bill legalized industrial hemp, creating economic opportunities for American farmers. A small group of producers are exploiting a legal gray area by creating intoxicating THC products ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...