A recent study has found that dreaming about a specific problem can help people find creative solutions the next day. By playing specialized sounds while participants slept, scientists were able to ...

Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math problems.

An overwhelming number of subjects woke up remembering dreams in which they were trying to crack puzzles that they hadn’t been able to solve before they dozed off. Even more amazingly, they were more ...

Researchers wonder whether the dreaming state might be doing more than you realize.

Sudoku fan? After diving into the math behind the game, test your skills with our very own puzzles in SciAm Games! Computer science seemingly rides a curve of unstoppable progress. Mere decades took ...