New research finds losing just 80 minutes of sleep a night triggers weight gain, but not through the mechanism scientists assumed
Sleep and weight gain have been linked in research for decades. The explanation has always felt obvious: when you are…
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Jul 29, 2026 ·
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The Dunning-Kruger effect says the least competent people are the most overconfident. A new study from Bath and LSE found it is actually the other way around
In 1999, two psychologists at Cornell University published a paper that would eventually become one of the most-cited findings in popular psychology. David Dunning and Justin Kruger gave…
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Teens who spend 6 hours a day on social media are twice as likely to develop anxiety. A new study found their risk of suicidal thoughts triples
Every parent has had the argument. Every teenager has rolled their eyes at it. The phone is taking too much…
A new study found the brain circuit that explains why you lose your appetite when you are anxious, and discovered it works like a single switch controlling both at once
Most people have experienced the effect without having a name for it. A stressful job interview, a difficult conversation, a…
A new study confirmed that frequent TV watching physically changes the brain, then found that sitting at work does something completely different to the same brain regions
A 20-year study found that frequent TV watching in midlife physically shrinks the brain, but sitting at a desk all day does not, and the difference explains something…
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