The busyness paradox. It suggests that doing less might actually lead to achieving more. Contrary to the common belief that ...

To earn a silver medal, for example ... the Effort Paradox. Bizarrely, though, studies have found that we actually value the coffee table we’ve had to painstakingly construct more highly ...

A scientific review explores the gender gap in life satisfaction and finds that, despite socioeconomic advances in equality, women are experiencing more emotional distress compared to men ...

One of the lasting memories from my teenage years is what I now recognize as an obsession with weight control. Thin was in, ...

States that do not expect or desire a better future relationship with the United States are less likely ... allies are more likely to give in to threats and pressure precisely because they prize their ...

Despite all of the attention on why people should eat less meat—climate change, health, animal welfare—Americans have kept consuming more and more ... of this “meat paradox,” as the ...

Scientists are just beginning to understand the differences between men and women’s sleep patterns and what they mean for our ...

The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by ...

The higher up your audience, the less patience they’ll have for getting bogged down in details. Let’s start with an example ... will yield shorter but more effective interactions.

the pulses apparently spent less than zero time travelling through. And that's not the only baffling example of temporal strangeness at very small scales – other theorists think it's conceivable ...