W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or ...

Crows are arguably among the smartest creatures on the planet, possessing some cognitive abilities that rival those of 5- to ...

The crow stared at the screen, as it had many times before. Six shapes appeared. Five were neat, balanced, regular; one was ...

Crows can recognize geometric patterns, suggesting that humans aren't unique in understanding shape structure.

In a testament to the crows’ intelligence (or perhaps just the deliciousness of mealworms), the birds all caught on ...

The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible threat to the food we eat ...

Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, ...

A new study finds that carrion crows can recognize geometrical shapes, a skill previously seen only in humans.

A new study shows that like humans, crows can recognize geometric regularity, making them the first nonhuman animal known to have this ability.

The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...