But new research published in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons will try to solve problems even when they don’t expect a food reward for the work. The scientists describe the behavior as foraging for ...

A recent study published in Neuroscience of Consciousness provides evidence that dreaming about a specific problem helps ...

An overwhelming number of subjects woke up remembering dreams in which they were trying to crack puzzles that they hadn’t been able to solve before they dozed off. Even more amazingly, they were more ...

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We've seen dream engineering in blockbuster movies like Christopher Nolan's Inception, and a new study shows that the science-fiction-style idea may be much closer to science fact than we realized. A ...

A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of ...

A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

Most crossword puzzle fans have experienced that moment where, after a period of struggle on a particularly difficult puzzle, everything suddenly starts to come together, and they are able to fill in ...

The puzzles of Blue Prince feel less like the gridlike blueprints you draft in the game and more like an intricate web. Even seasoned puzzle lovers might feel tested by its mysteries. In Blue Prince, ...

Scientists have long researched how dreams could help with problem solving. Neurologists found that test subjects who worked on puzzles set to a soundtrack and then fell asleep were more likely to ...