Money and status don’t tell the whole story. The authors looked beyond material factors (income, personal achievements) to behavioral tendencies — how patient people are, how willing they are to…

Repellents are a primary line of defense against mosquitoes and the diseases those insects carry. The most common active ingredient in mosquito products is N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide, better known as DEET. Effective,…

Psychologist Mark Travers says couples who were passionately in love yesterday can start to pull away, and if they don’t repair things, the gap usually widens. These shifts often begin…

If you can read this, you’re probably sure of one thing: you’re conscious. Your relatives, neighbors, and friends seem conscious too — they act like people and appear to share…

For decades, men were more likely to file for divorce—often following the midlife-crisis script of leaving for a younger partner. Now middle-aged women are just as likely to start the…

Sefik Tagay, a professor of psychology at Cologne University of Applied Sciences in Germany, says social media don’t hook you because you’re weak. They do it because the platforms satisfy…

Marine cloud brightening could locally reduce warming and help protect vulnerable ecosystems from extreme heat. Led by Professor Hugh Coe at the University of Manchester, the team is running experiments…

A study by researchers at the University of Queensland (Australia) found that members of Gen Z stereotypically view their older colleagues as incompetent, untrainable, and unable to adapt to new…

When we think of narcissism, we stereotypically picture an arrogant, boastful person—probably a man—who talks too much in meetings and constantly posts online. Although men generally show narcissistic traits more…

Everyone knows the movie and TV images of domineering female bosses who, in the story, humiliated their employees, especially men. Examples include Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada),…

You’ve probably heard this exact exchange. One person insists they can’t find an item even after searching thoroughly. A second person walks in and almost immediately points to the missing…

Researchers at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, Netherlands, warn that seemingly harmless “floaters” in the eye can sometimes signal serious vision problems. Floaters: what they are and why they…

In 1921 the walls of the Washburn-Crosby office—the food empire whose Gold Medal Flour sat in nearly every American pantry—started to crack under pressure. Letters from homemakers poured in by…