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 UBC study finds raccoons solve puzzles even without food rewards, suggesting they are driven by curiosity and ...

Well so do raccoons, and new research suggests they're genuinely curious about solving them, even if there's no reward. A new study has found raccoons are curious creatures who try out all sorts of ...

There's nothing like beating The New York Times' daily crossword puzzle. You get a buzz, a jolt of pride that makes you feel like you could banter with the best of them. You're a genius, AI-enabled ...

17A. Once you’ve solved enough tricky puzzles, you’ll start to recognize the words that constructors love to play on in clues. One of these words is “canine.” It’s either a dog or a tooth, so ...

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 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 ...