A new study reveals that sex differences in academic strengths are found throughout the world and girls' relative advantage in reading and boys' in science is largest in gender-equal countries. Gender ...

How could this be? This counterintuitive finding is a consequence of what’s called Simpson’s paradox, a phenomenon that is now widely known in statistics. In 1899 mathematician Karl Pearson first ...

Transparency in science is a delicate issue that directly influences public trust. A recent study explores this paradox where too much transparency can sometimes backfire. Byron Hyde, a researcher at ...

And what triangle exists when it really shouldn’t? These questions lie behind some of the most puzzling paradoxes in history.