The $75,000 Happiness Ceiling Everyone Quotes Was Only Half Right. Here’s the Rest
Two rival scientists teamed up in 2023 and found money keeps lifting most people’s moods, with one telling exception.
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Work, technology, money habits and the way we live now.
Is Your Phone’s Blue Light Ruining Your Sleep? The Evidence Is Weak
Night Shift, amber glasses, screen curfews: we rated five popular claims about phones and sleep against the research. The light is rarely the real problem.
Multitasking Is Mostly a Myth, but 1 in 40 People Might Be the Exception
Follow an ordinary workday through 25 years of research on task switching, phones and the rare “supertaskers” who seem to break the rules.
Do You Really Need 10,000 Steps a Day? What the Research Actually Shows
The famous target began life as a pedometer name. Here is what five big studies say about the step count that really matters.
What Happens When People Quit Social Media? Five Experiments, One by One
Researchers have paid people to log off, cut them to 10 minutes a day and switched them off before an election. Here is what each study found.
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination: The Science of Stealing Back Your Night
Staying up late to reclaim time the day took from you has a name, and a growing body of research. Here is why we do it and what genuinely helps.