We spend a lot of time thinking about the difficult people in our lives—the friend who can't take feedback, the partner who always has to be right, the coworker who turns everything into a fight. But ...

The busy box that is your brain is hard at work all day long—and it doesn’t quit when you’re asleep. Not only does your brain fill your slumber with dreams, it also goes right on solving the problems ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

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If you want to get people’s attention to address a problem, making it seem as big as possible is a nearly universal reflex. Across more than a dozen experiments, they find that describing how big a ...

Problem-solving therapy (PST) helps individuals manage stress by breaking down challenges into practical, manageable steps. The aim of the therapy is to help people cope more confidently with ...

Relying on stereotypes and obvious culture-clash jokes, the film imagines estranged relatives trying to put aside past differences. Before he goes, Kes wants to settle at least one war: the one raging ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

For the past month or so, you could hardly log onto any social media platform without hearing Laila!‘s TikTok-viral single “That’s Not My Problem.” The song became so popular online, that Cash Cobain ...

According to memes and social media posts, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is rumored to have once opined about dealing with problems, problems and more problems. The purported quote reads, "The ...

The origins of “Houston, we have a problem” rest with the nearly catastrophic Apollo 13 mission in 1970. For decades since, the phrase has been used to signify a downturn for all manner of misfortune: ...