Modern racing cars generate enormous quantities of information every lap. Telemetry systems monitor everything from tire ...

Academics worldwide are rethinking their assessment approaches — from developing exams that artificial-intelligence tools can ...

Uncertainty is part of the scientific process, and it’s not a bad thing – it’s where future discoveries can happen.

Older adults who experienced food insecurity in both midlife and later life had nearly four times the risk of probable ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI made an announcement that shook the mathematical world. An internal AI model — one not available to the public — had come up with a counterexample to the “unit distance” ...

Frontline employees shape the customer experience, spot operational friction first, and determine whether new tools improve work or simply create more of it. Their motivation, judgment, and skill are ...

Nvidia’s latest announcement goes a step further, proposing to greatly reduce the immense amounts of water (300,000 gallons per day for a mid-size facility) guzzled by data centers to keep their ...

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The bees had to roll the ball under a blue "flower," then stand atop the moved object to access a sweet treat. Mikko Törmänen / University of Oulu Some bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, a ...

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 ...

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 ...