Mathematicians excel at handling complexity and uncertainty. Mathematical reasoning strategies aren't just useful for dilemmas involving numbers. We can apply math mindsets to improve our approach to ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

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Scientists observe bumblebees rolling a ball underneath a flower to get sugar, showing complex problem-solving abilities.

A century ago, a psychologist named Wolfgang Köhler proved that chimpanzees could solve complex ...

There’s a question you hear in high schools all around the world, a question that marks yet another student giving up on maths once and for all: “Why on earth are we learning something that we’ll ...

Movie S4. Task solution in Experiment 3. This movie shows a bee solving the task in Experiment 3. The beginning of the video (habituation phase, without the ball present) is shown at accelerated speed ...

Bumblebees were able to complete several new object-manipulation tasks in a series of groundbreaking experiments.