Ever woken up to find that a crafty raccoon has overturned your garbage bin and spread the discarded contents of your life across the street? Raccoons — sometimes referred to as “trash pandas” — are ...

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

"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 ...

Gregory Treverton, a national security expert at RAND Corporation, famously distinguished between two types of problems, puzzles and mysteries. He was describing the modern challenges faced by the ...

Sleeping on a challenge may actually work as scientists find dreams can help your brain rethink and solve tough problems overnight.

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 study has documented the abilities of individual wild Asian elephants to access food by solving puzzles that unlocked storage boxes. It is the first research study to show that individual wild ...

Most animals stop working once they have eaten. Raccoons, it turns out, keep going. A new study found that raccoons continued solving puzzles long after retrieving their food reward, spending extra ...