Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

There's a moment most people recognize but rarely stop to examine. You're waiting somewhere with nothing to do, your phone is ...

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

Ed Solomon talks ‘The Christophers,’ low-budget creative limits, and working with Steven Soderbergh and Ian McKellen ...

Great Hearts Glendale Prep's Metal Mustangs built their way to Houston through community support, creative problem-solving ...

Salvador Dalí used various napping techniques in order to spark creativity. Credit: Bettmann. In this lab in Hamburg, Germany ...

Girls Preparatory School has been awarded a $3,500 STEM Classroom Grant through the Tennessee Valley Authority STEM Award ...

Exclusive: A new book goes deep into not just the history of the beloved stop-motion animation studio, but the creative minds behind it. Over the course of less than two decades, stop-motion animation ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

Neuroscientist Karen Konkoly is a lucid dreamer. When she’s asleep and immersed in a dream, she knows that she is, in fact, dreaming. One of her favorite things to do during these sleep sojourns is ...

The findings, published in Personality and Individual Differences, show that people with strong ADHD symptoms, such as inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that can impair some aspects of daily ...