The relationship between pet ownership and human wellbeing has been studied from many angles, but the specific influence of a ...

Shari Bye's doctoral dissertation focuses on students and "non-routine" problem solving, in which the student focuses on reasoning, not just memorization.

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front ...

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, ...

In parts of the Middle East and North Africa, a patchwork of sanctions, payment failures, and licensing gaps pushes people into piracy networks. In the Middle East, piracy is illegal in countries with ...

In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows she’s dreaming. Lucid ...

Over the past couple of years, we have seen an increased push for age verification across a number of applications and online platforms. The push has been so concentrated in some states that thousands ...

Steven Bouma-Prediger seldom sees students walking between classes without their faces buried in their smartphones. This distraction transfers into the classroom, where Bouma-Prediger takes matters ...

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 ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...