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 ...

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Ever woken up to find that a crafty raccoon has overturned your garbage bin and spread the discarded contents of your life across the street? Raccoons — sometimes referred to as “trash pandas” — are ...

Crossword puzzles are now a staple of newspapers, but that wasn’t always the case. The first modern crossword, as we know it today, appeared in the New York World on 21 December 1913. Arthur Wynne, ...

Most animals stop working once they have eaten. Raccoons, it turns out, keep going. A new study found that raccoons continued solving puzzles long after retrieving their food reward, spending extra ...

Sleeping on a challenge may actually work as scientists find dreams can help your brain rethink and solve tough problems overnight.

FRIDAY PUZZLE — Waiter, there’s a curve in my crossword! (Feel free to drop a punchline in the comments section.) Today’s ...