Although climate change gets the headlines, we still have the old environmental challenges, such as preserving wildlife and reducing water pollution—the kind of concerns that kicked off Earth Day 1970 ...

Solving problems isn’t an ability everyone has naturally. Personally, I can get frazzled in high-stress situations while others can keep a cool head and comfort people with a calm conversational style ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Math is hard. And, apparently, expensive. On Tuesday, OpenAI said its agents had solved the Navier-Stokes equations, a ...

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics. By Cade Metz OpenAI said on Tuesday that its newest ...

Another very bad, very ill-timed series loss for the Cubs, who are really feeling the sting of pitching staff warts and injuries and batted-ball reliance. Lots to say about Shota Imanaga specifically, ...

Far-left Democrats keep backing democratic socialism, but what is the state of free enterprise? On this episode of All Things, Kim Strassel speaks with U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice ...

The Riemann hypothesis claims that the locations of prime numbers along the infinite number line all adhere to a beautiful and orderly but obscure formula. Yet 167 years after German mathematician ...

The bees had to roll the ball under a blue "flower," then stand atop the moved object to access a sweet treat. Mikko Törmänen / University of Oulu Some bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees utilized tools to solve complex problems to win a sugary treat, even if they ...