New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

With no training, bumblebees can work out how to use a ball like a ladder to feed on sugar from an out-of-reach flower.

In 2024, Olli Loukola of the Finland co-authored a study demonstrating that bumblebees could cooperate to solve complex ...

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons ...

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Abstract: With the transformation of manufacturing towards intelligence and flexibility, the workshop scheduling problem, as a typical combinatorial optimization problem, is facing increasingly ...

Abstract: With increasing complex workflow application and computational resources requirement, distributed computing has attracted growing attention. Meanwhile, cloud computing has emerged as a ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Ben Gomes argues the most important thing in education is something no algorithm can ...

Quantum computers are already here, but they make far too many errors. This is arguably the biggest obstacle to the technology really becoming useful, but recent breakthroughs suggest a solution may ...