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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This month’s reality television themed grid was co-constructed by Christina Iverson and Gabby Windey.