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 ...

A tricky lock puzzle puts patience and problem solving to the test with false moves dead ends and the satisfying moment when ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Captive hyenas are much more successful problem solvers than their wild counterparts, a new study has found. The research illustrates how lessons learned from caged animals, which tend to be more ...