Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a raccoon, breaking into your garbage might be just as satisfying as cracking a crossword puzzle or a Sudoku is for you, ...

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 ...

Raccoons Don’t Just Scavenge. They Study. In A Nutshell Raccoons continued solving puzzle box openings even after their food reward was gone, suggesting they explore for the sake of learning, not just ...

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They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

A recent study published in Neuroscience of Consciousness provides evidence that dreaming about a specific problem helps people find solutions. Researchers used sound cues during sleep to successfully ...

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 ...