In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable ...

Bumblebees appear to be capable of coming up with creative solutions to new problems to get a sugary reward—and their ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

Electrification – the process of making transportation and building heating reliant on the electric grid rather than fossil ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

The findings, published in Personality and Individual Differences, show that people with strong ADHD symptoms, such as inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that can impair some aspects of daily ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...

Traditionally, people in the business world laud entrepreneurs as visionaries—risk-takers, lone wolves with audacious ideas. Risk-taking, ambition and resilience are vital parts of becoming an ...

For years, I've watched the Pentagon's innovation process with the same mixture of frustration and respect that a coach feels for a team with immense potential but a flawed game plan. So when I heard ...