MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Do you think your dog is a real problem-solving pooch? Well now, there are new tools designed to work those skills. One toy, like the automatic ball launcher, trains dogs to play ...

"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 ...

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 ...

It's not enough that our robots clean our rooms and cook our meals — soon they'll do our puzzles for us, too. Andy Gallagher, a researcher at Cornell University, has made a program that can assemble ...

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 ...

Well so do raccoons, and new research suggests they're genuinely curious about solving them, even if there's no reward. A new study has found raccoons are curious creatures who try out all sorts of ...

A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

While puzzles are often seen as solitary activities, International Puzzle Day shines a light on their powerful social side. From family board games to online puzzle communities, problem-solving has 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 ...