They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

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Your brain could be gently coaxed into working on complex problems while you sleep, making you better able to tackle them the next day. Now, Karen Konkoly at Northwestern University in Illinois and ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Margie Freed has always been in it for the fun. The “about me” section on her bio on the US Biathlon website opens with the phrase “Hey Sports Fans!” The Eastview alum — who won an individual Nordic ...

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 ...

Monday evening and for the third time in two days plows piled snow against cars on the 100 block of Franklin St. We trudged them out and then those employees from Public Works moved snow back. A check ...

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