Raccoons love solving puzzles, even after finding food. Curiosity drives learning and may explain why raccoons adapt so well to city life.

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Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

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Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Your code will carry the signs of the decisions you have not made. Three recurring patterns emerge across organizations: the shared "kitchen sink" utilities library, the domain "identity crisis", and ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...