The U.S. National Science Foundation’s $1.5 billion X-Labs call for agile new entities to tackle pressing, narrow problems ...

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The Cold Atom Lab is a facility for the study of ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the ...

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

Scientists combined 44,000 citizen science photos, experiments, and genetic data to understand how prairie grasses adapt to climates.

In the era of precision cosmology, research often means big science: large observatories, highly complex instruments, international collaborations and substantial funding. Yet even in such an advanced ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

Quantum physics once shocked scientists by revealing that particles can behave like waves—and now, that strange behavior has been pushed even further. For the first time, researchers have observed ...

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 ...