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 ...

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 ...

Digital Envoy, the pioneer of IP-based geolocation intelligence, today announced the launch of LocID Graph. Bridging the gap between volatile digital identifiers and physical household stability, the ...

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 ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Physicists unveil system to solve long-standing barrier to new generation of supercomputers by Kermit Pattison, Harvard Gazette edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has pre-emptively acquired rights to Oscar-nominated writer Eric Heisserer’s debut novel Simultaneous. Producers on a planned film adaptation will include Heisserer and Carmen ...

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 ...