Science news articles about 'puzzler'

Who is buried in Friedrich Schiller's tomb? Several people, apparently, but none of them the famous poet and playwright, according to new research.

A team of neuroscientists at Duke University Medical Center has suggested an entirely new way to explain a puzzling visual phenomenon called the flash-lag effect. Experts have debated for the past ...

Handlers of a popular polar bear, brought to mate with a female in a zoo in northern Japan, found their breeding plan was doomed when they noticed that he, in fact, was a she.

Boggle your noggin with five far-out Perseid meteor shower puzzlers.

The solving of a grand math challenge in the fields of theoretical computer science and complexity theory has garnered interest, but no real answers.