Scientists observe bumblebees rolling a ball underneath a flower to get sugar, showing complex problem-solving abilities.

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

A century ago, a psychologist named Wolfgang Köhler proved that chimpanzees could solve complex ...

Movie S4. Task solution in Experiment 3. This movie shows a bee solving the task in Experiment 3. The beginning of the video (habituation phase, without the ball present) is shown at accelerated speed ...

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 ...

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There may be some value in "sleeping on it"—or, at least, in taking a deep power nap for 20 minutes—when it comes to problem solving, as it may lead you to a "eureka" moment. This is the conclusion of ...

One of the ways we try to understand the origins of human intelligence is by looking at its equivalents elsewhere in the animal world. But doing so turns out to be more complicated than it might seem.

Researchers have developed a new, data-driven machine-learning technique that speeds up software programs used to solve complex optimization problems that can have millions of potential solutions.

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