Dreams and REM sleep have long been associated with creativity. Why is that? Sleep is about a lot more than just restoration.

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

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

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 ...

Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.