There are many different kinds of reasoning. Some reasoning is by simple association. If you see very dark clouds coming your way, accompanied by lightning and thunder, you will probably conclude that ...

For more than 20 years — and after working with more than 10,000 participants who attended my Kaizen workshops — I’ve refined a simple yet powerful tool that makes problem-solving useful for everyone.

Aaron Seitz, professor of psychology and director of the Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-being at Northeastern University, told The Washington Post that when ...

What’s more, doing maths is often a collaborative endeavour – and can be a great source of fun and fulfilment when people ...

The human brain is very good at solving complicated problems. One reason for that is that humans can break problems apart into manageable subtasks that are easy to solve one at a time. This allows us ...

Restoring lost senses or delivering precise brain signals has required invasive hardware and can’t mimic the brain’s natural, distributed activity patterns. This platform shows the brain can learn to ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

This week marks two years since the death of my friend and mentor, Henry Kissinger. Genesis—our book about AI and humanity's future—was his final project. For much of his career, the former Secretary ...

The best of New Scientist's festive long reads, all in one place. Discover the wild experiments physicists would do if money were no object, what you can learn about ageing from the world's oldest ...