A police officer surveys an area outside the Bangor Public Library where homeless people were congregating in April. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN BDN reporters help make the Bangor region a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York’s leaders have been rightly celebrating the city’s major reductions in murder and gun violence. But the city still struggles with a different violent crime problem: record-high assault rates.

RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — It’s no stretch to say that in the the battle of wills, visions and, yes, national titles being waged across the college-sports landscape, the Big Ten has taken the ...

RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, Calif. – It’s no stretch to say that in the battle of wills, visions and, yes, national titles being waged across the college-sports landscape, the Big Ten has taken the lead.

👉 Learn how to graph piecewise functions. A piecewise function is a function that has more than one sub-function for different sub-intervals (sub-domains) of the function's domain. To graph a ...

Dear Eric: I guess I’m tired of reading all the problems people have with their marriages or children or coworkers. Here’s my problem: none. How do I stay engaged, feel completely fulfilled and happy ...