Rubik's Cube fever was sweeping the nation in the summer of 1981 when Eyewitness News reporter Josh Howell decided to take ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children’s rights champion suggests reopening Soviet labour camps in summer holidays Antonia Langford is a reporter based in Kyiv who covers Ukraine and Russia. She has also written for The Times, The ...

Russia is considering lowering the working age to 12 and reopening Soviet-era labour camps in a bid to solve the country's spiralling job crisis. Olga Yaroslavskaya, the children's rights commissioner ...

Scientist Juha-Heikki Kantola always knew bees were smart. But when he watched them solve a variation of a puzzle originally designed for chimpanzees, he was blown away. Kantola is one of the authors ...

It’s the equivalent of Toyota opening its own service station franchise, but BYD Australia has admitted it could open its own public electric vehicle charging network. “We’re working through that, but ...

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