A new report reveals that while young workers excel at digital communication, their critical thinking and creative ...

AfriExit is no longer theory. It is happening in South Africa as I write -- and the continent is watching. Ghana has summoned South Africa's high commissioner. Nigeria has evacuated citizens. The ...

Chinese tech company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, confirming the open-license, 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model is the same system that sp ...

Easy access to AI answer bots is killing learning. That’s one of the conclusions in a new and troubling study about AI use ...

The economics of modern air defense are broken. Counterdrone systems are one of the fastest-growing segments in defense. The reason is a simple imbalance: Cheap drones are overwhelming their expensive ...

I wanted to better understand what lies behind conflicting research on why students listen to music and whether it makes it easier or harder for them to focus. In a study conducte ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...