People with paradoxical insomnia strongly believe they are not sleeping, despite proof they slept normally. (Image source: Pixabay) Struggling with insomnia, or is it just in your head? Many people ...

IT has recently been pointed out that Iqbal’s poetic corpus is replete with contradictions. One obvious explanation is that the intellectual growth of a thinker entails a lack of harmony between at ...

Meet “impossibagel,” a physically impossible bagel that mathematicians use to resolve intricate geometry problems. But impossibagel—and other “impossible objects” in mathematics—is notoriously ...

Sleep state misperception is a condition where you underestimate how much you’ve slept the night before. You may feel like you were awake all night, but you actually slept for hours. It’s also called ...

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Shashi Tharoor faces internal criticism within the Congress party after remarks in Panama seemingly credited the Modi government with initiating cross-border strikes, contradicting his own previous ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

The recombination between parental chromosomes, a characteristic of sexual reproduction, plays a crucial role in evolution. In mammals, a protein called PRDM9 is essential for this process. In a paper ...

A few years ago, a friend of mine brought the idea of paradoxical leadership to my attention. I had never heard of it before and didn't do a deep dive until a separate colleague mentioned it again. It ...

InvestigationWhile the notion of 'common sense' has created fertile ideological ground for the emergence of liberal democracies, its blurred definition today allows unscrupulous politicians, ...

You may already know that “clock-blocking” and getting out of bed can be surprisingly helpful if you keep waking up in the middle of the night and are unable to go back to sleep. It’s a situation I ...

Paradoxical tensions among consumers are making their behavior unpredictable and baffling many sellers, according to a report released Monday by a global strategy and management consulting firm.