Across the whole group of participants, cued or uncued, the subsequent solving rate for puzzles that had appeared in dreams ...

A few blobs of lab-grown brain tissue have demonstrated a striking proof of concept: living neural circuits can be nudged toward solving a classic control problem through carefully structured feedback ...

Experiments involving playing music during sleep have revealed a type of dream engineering that doubled subjects' ...

We've all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to "sleep on it." It turns out there may be more truth to this adage than previously thought. While stories abound of eureka moments surfacing ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and the University of Oxford have successfully demonstrated how problem-solving techniques used in ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing coverage of ...

Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft responds to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that ...