"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 ...

Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math problems.

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 ...

What would you do to go to the edge of space? Ordinarily, you’d have to train for decades in the high-streamed programs run by space agencies like NASA or ESA, the European Space Agency. But there’s ...

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 ...

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 ...