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 ...

Security pros tackle tough problems every day, from breach investigations to niche technical issues to strategy and policy development. The key to maintaining and improving these critical ...

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 ...

Raccoons are always getting up to hijinks. If they’re not breaking into banks, they’re raiding bins and getting drunk on crab apples. Their propensity for shenanigans may finally have an explanation, ...

A recent study published in Neuroscience of Consciousness provides evidence that dreaming about a specific problem helps ...

Many companies from Wall Street to Silicon Valley are now using puzzles and riddles in interviews as a way to gauge the problem-solving abilities of potential candidates. I thought I liked this ...