Highlights: Montara Therapeutics awarded non-dilutive funding grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) to advance a BrainOnly™ therapy ...

Daniel Lesman, an MD-PhD student in biophysics, has been named a 2026 Hertz Foundation fellow. The Hertz Fellowship provides ...

Founder and CEO Prash Chopra with the Petal Surgical logo. [Image courtesy of the company] Petal Surgical today announced a new financing round to support its incisionless surgery platform as it works ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable ...

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

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

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

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

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

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

Whenever someone sends me a question about how to fix their Wi-Fi, I wince. It’s not that I dislike helping people with their router problems. In fact, there are few geeky endeavors I find more ...