During a recent conference on the People’s Liberation Army, I heard the same question posed to attendees and paper writers: ...

The Pentagon is shooting expensive missiles faster than it can replace them. Its solution: cheaper missiles. The U.S. military is using nonstandard contracts and tasking defense contractors to design ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Congress should take steps to improve the disability evaluation process to ensure that veterans receive timely and accurate compensation for ...

Krasner is a retired rear admiral, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy, retired professor of medicine, and former attending physician to Congress. The war in Iran has done what years of policy papers could not.

Image Credit: Jose M. Peral Photography / Shutterstock. Military vehicles rarely become legends through style alone. The machines that last in memory usually earned their reputation by answering one ...

I cut my teeth getting grounded in principles of design thinking when I launched a strategic design MBA during my university teaching years. Design thinking is essentially a problem-solving process ...

War has always been part of my life. Born at the end of World War II, my early school years encompassed the Korean War, where 35,000 American service members lost their lives. We had a brief break in ...