Raccoons Don’t Just Scavenge. They Study. In A Nutshell Raccoons continued solving puzzle box openings even after their food reward was gone, suggesting they explore for the sake of learning, not just ...

They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

Raccoons keep solving puzzles even after finding food. Curiosity drives learning and may explain why raccoons adapt so well ...

A recent study published in Neuroscience of Consciousness provides evidence that dreaming about a specific problem helps people find solutions. Researchers used sound cues during sleep to successfully ...

"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 ...

People who had trouble solving problems were more likely to solve them when prompted in their sleep.

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 ...

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 ...