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If, as novelist-philosopher Samuel Butler wrote in 1878, “a hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”, then a galaxy may only be a black hole’s way of making another black hole. To put it ...

Keith Urban is gearing up for a record release unlike any he's mounted before: An album full of yacht rock cover songs called Flow State which drops on Friday (June 12.) There will be 10 familiar ...

Agentic AI is now a core part of the engineering process, driving massive execution leverage and helping us generate more code than ever before. Yet, a difficult question I’ve increasingly heard from ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

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 ...

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