If you’re a little short on sleep today, know that more shut-eye might not have changed anything. A new study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that more sleep alone doesn’t improve performance […]
Creativity has long been considered tough to quantify. But an international cohort of researchers from McGill University, Harvard University, and the University of Melbourne are tackling that challenge with a recent study that claims […]
Maybe that strip club is good for the neighborhood. This is the finding from an analysis of New York City crime data out of Princeton University, recently published in the Economic Journal. Over an eight-year […]
Scrolling through recipes on Pinterest, you’d think its 450 million users are health nuts who are obsessed with low-cal dishes. But, as with many things on social media, looks are deceiving. A new study from George […]
The good people of Denmark have once again provided their excellent, centralized healthcare data to save us all, this time allowing researchers to track the COVID-19 infection rates of 4 million Danes […]
Many Republicans routinely complain that the big social networks systematically suppress right-wing viewpoints, but they’ve produced little real evidence of it. A new study from New York University finds that there is no evidence of it, […]
Have you noticed that most of the people you see not wearing masks and brushing closely past you are men? A fascinating study out of Yale University and New York University confirms this, finding […]
Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has highlighted and exacerbated inequalities in our world—from who manages to make money during economic downturn to who is forced to risk their health as […]
A recent study reported that 36% of people had increased the amount of candy they were eating during the pandemic. Survey or not, it should come as no surprise that over the […]
So much of modern life happens indoors. From offices to apartments or homes, most people in today’s day and age find themselves cooped up inside for most of the day. Spending more […]
