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The viral wall test is a fun trend, but not a real measure of dog intelligence. Results mix trust, body awareness, reflexes, and past experiences. Real smarts show in problem‑solving, social reading, ...

Raccoons love solving puzzles, even after finding food. Curiosity drives learning and may explain why raccoons adapt so well to city life.

For a long time, scientists judged animal intelligence by how closely it resembled human behavior. That left a lot unnoticed.

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A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Wild crows are far more observant than the average passerby might think, especially when it comes to identifying potential threats. Researchers at the University of Washington discovered that these ...

It also plays a key role in understanding how intelligent AI is, preventing the misallocation of resources, and guiding ...

The wave-shaped chart Ratul Chowdhury pulls up on a computer monitor in his office captures the evolutionary cat-and-mouse ...

Drug discovery is often described as searching for a needle in a haystack, with only a tiny number of drug compounds simultaneously safe, effective, and synthesizable. The reality is far more daunting ...

Blushing is one behavior you may have wanted to eliminate completely, but there is a strong, adaptive reason why evolution ...