Ever woken up to find that a crafty raccoon has overturned your garbage bin and spread the discarded contents of your life ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When 2D puzzles are no longer exciting, 3D brain teasers are the way. These handheld puzzles require ...

REHOVOT, Israel — Scientists have long been fascinated by collective intelligence, the idea that groups can solve problems ...

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 ...

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 ...

But new research published in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons will try to solve problems even when they don’t expect a ...