Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

Generative AI delivers results that no one can follow anymore. AlphaGo showed this pattern in 2016. When is reliability ...

Most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis — and about 3 in 10 have personally lost money or personal ...

Businesses had time to adapt, standardize and draw new lines between business and IT. The AI era is different, not because disruption is new, but because of the speed and scale of the change. We’re ...

People remember bad streaks harder than good streaks. They ignore perfect drops for builds they are not playing. They call 80 ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The P vs NP problem is a fundamental question in computer science, unproven for decades, with immense consequences. If ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...