I know the number I need, so I let Excel work out the rest.

It seems to me that there are some intractable problems facing higher education. We can’t produce more 18-year-olds. We can’t suddenly cut enough people and programs to save all the small colleges and ...

Founded by researchers at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo in 2025, QuantumCore Inc. is developing a device to tackle the heat that is generated when translating ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer. By Kenneth Chang Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...