The eight-second attention span myth has no scientific source
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Neuroscience, psychology, and the science of how we think and act.
The physics of tidying: creating order always costs disorder somewhere else
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Bionic Reading bolds the first half of each word on the promise of more efficient reading, and a registered eye-tracking study of 90…
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AI companions trigger real grief when relationships suddenly end
By Daniel Moran · Sep 13, 2026
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Octopuses may experience a dream-like sleep stage with rapid color shifts
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Meta-analysis of 71,011 people finds attachment anxiety linked to lower relationship satisfaction
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Reframing problems backfires when you can actually solve them
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Learned helplessness theory got it backward, researchers now say
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