Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

We've seen dream engineering in blockbuster movies like Christopher Nolan's Inception, and a new study shows that the science-fiction-style idea may be much closer to science fact than we realized. A ...

Got a problem? Science says you should sleep on it.

We've all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to "sleep on it." It turns out there may be more truth to this adage ...

Math puzzles test readers' critical thinking skills by challenging them to solve problems. Math puzzles can boost analytical ...

Scientists have found a way to plant ideas in dreams to boost creativity in a move that could bring Inception-style 'dream ...

For many years, the idea that “sleeping on it” would provide an individual with some time in which their subconscious mind would work through a problem or problems has generally been accepted as ...

New research from Northwestern University suggests that dreams may play a more active role in creative problem-solving than previously demonstrated.

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 ...

NPR's Short Wave talks about babies' perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so long.