Crows, ravens, and other corvids consistently rank among the most intelligent animals on Earth. These birds possess problem-solving abilities that rival those of great apes, despite having very ...

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 ...

When a crowd gets something right, like guessing how many beans are in a jar, forecasting an election, or solving a difficult scientific problem, it's tempting to credit the sharpest individual in the ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

When a company with tens of thousands of software engineers found that uptake of a new AI-powered tool was lagging well below 50%, they wanted to know why. It turned out that the problem wasn’t the ...

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 ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...

Remote-controlled robot rabbits are being deployed to help tackle Florida’s invasive python problem. The Burmese python threatens the ecosystem of the Everglades by preying on wildlife, including ...