REHOVOT, Israel — Scientists have long been fascinated by collective intelligence, the idea that groups can solve problems ...

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But new research published in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons will try to solve problems even when they don’t expect a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gregory Treverton, a national security expert at RAND Corporation, famously distinguished between two types of problems, puzzles and mysteries. He was describing the modern challenges faced by the ...

Bizarre raccoon behavior seems them solve puzzles even without food rewards, suggesting they are driven by curiosity and ...