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Moon bases, living to 100 and (finally!) flying cars. What 2076 and our future will look like may be stranger than we expect.

Once you start seeing natural selection as a constant, omnipresent, and sometimes speedy force, almost everything else in ...

JPMorgan Chase is expanding its digital bank into France, Spain, and Italy, targeting long-term European growth. Read more on ...

You’re reading Progress Report, Jessica Winter’s column on family and K-12 education. Mac Barnett is a best-selling author of children’s books, including a suite of droll, spare picture-book ...

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 ...

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 ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

I cut my teeth getting grounded in principles of design thinking when I launched a strategic design MBA during my university teaching years. Design thinking is essentially a problem-solving process ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...