Does math give you trouble? Here's some encouragement: Despite their miniature brains, a new study says honeybees can learn basic arithmetic. If they can do it, so can you. According to a study ...

It’s easy to underestimate a honeybee. It weighs less than a paperclip and carries a brain with fewer than one million neurons. In comparison, the human brain has around 86 billion. By size alone, ...

Most people think that only people can understand numbers, but that's not true. Many animals can naturally figure out how much something costs, see patterns, and make decisions based on simple math.

Turns out, it’s not just pollination that bees are great at — they ace the calculation game, too.When you picture smart animals, chances are bees don’t make the top of your list. Sure, we know they’re ...

Scientists can get animals to do the strangest things. They’ve taught goldfish to drive cars, primates to perform calculations with Arabic numerals and giraffes to do statistical reasoning. But what’s ...