At the height of the summer season Glyndebourne’s lawns look bleached. A panorama of pale, straw-like grass, bone Panama hats ...

Districts are heading into a new school year awash in AI-powered tools. Education leaders and vendors in a recent webinar ...

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This creative short explores the popular three-marker art challenge, putting color selection and artistic problem-solving to the test under strict limitations. By drawing using only three randomly ...

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Every unanswered phone call can cost a business a customer. While many companies accept this as part of everyday operations, Indian-origin entrepreneur Apurva Shrivastava saw it as a problem worth ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...