For decades, American workplaces rewarded curiosity and deep expertise. Today, many employers say those traits are being ...

For most people, solving a problem is the reward—the relief of being done, the achievement of having figured it out.

Trash pandas’ talent for escaping via lab vents may frustrate researchers, but their problem-solving skills make their brains ...

Psychological research shows that intolerance of uncertainty limits reasoning ability. Highly intelligent individuals tend to ...

Antigravity adds a browser helper agent for click-through app tests and debugging, giving developers quicker feedback and ...

Children often lie out of fear of punishment, to avoid being scolded, or to avoid disappointing someone. Sometimes they ...

When faced with something new, human beings instinctively reach for comparisons. A child learning about atoms might hear that electrons orbit the nucleus “like planets orbit the sun.” An entrepreneur ...

The drunken Ashland raccoon captured global attention because it fit the narrative people have projected onto the species: ...

Using new employer survey data, this article breaks down what workforce alignment really means in the AI era—and offers a ...

Cognitive ease may be one of the most dangerous feelings in an AI-mediated world. Consider these four steps to preserve your ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Strap: Anil Srinivasan built a career dragging pianos into Carnatic concerts. Now he's dragging Ivy League professors into ...