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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neelkanth Mishra, Axis Bank's Chief Economist and a part-time member of India's Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, sees "no justification" for the Reserve Bank of India to hike interest ...

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 ...

At the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Robert Moser leads roughly 700 researchers, engineers and computer scientists working on some of the country’s most ...

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 ...

AS MARKETING SLOGANS go, “the difference 4,399 days can make” is unlikely to win many Cannes Lions. Nor is #LongestServingElectedPMModi the sort of hashtag that will set social media on fire. But the ...

Water scarcity just became Wall Street’s problem. SpaceX’s recent IPO filing explicitly warns investors that water access now ranks alongside power and processors as a critical constraint on AI data ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...