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We talk about feeling chemistry with people, getting butterflies in our stomach and reaching that point of infatuation with another where you’re checking their Instagram constantly. But how does true...
Twice a day, most people in the Western world take part in a health intervention that started almost 3,000 years ago. Maybe that’s not surprising: we only get one set...
As the old saying goes, you can’t polish a turd, but you can – and arguably should – study them. Doctors have long known that the contents of our toilet...
I don’t have to think very hard to remember when my mother’s memory revealed the first tiniest clues that all was not well. We were on the phone. I recounted...
Tree-covered hills stand watch over a yawning hole in the ground. The giant pit steps down in stages, its concentric rings growing ever smaller the deeper it goes. Huge trucks...
Too often, modern life is defined by cognitive overload. We carry more information, more obligations and more ambient anxiety than at any point in the history of grey matter. Work...
Fear not, you’re far from the only one to have had this rather unsettling experience. Since2006, psychologists at the University of Notre Dame inIndianahave been investigating what’s become known as...
Most of us have probably wanted to be cool at some point in our lives, and these efforts can have a big influence on the things we buy, the way...
They don’t call it go-juice for nothing. Caffeine is the world’s favourite performance-enhancing drug. And it is a drug, not a nutrient – the most widely taken psychoactive stimulant known...
Picture the Arctic and you probably think of a vast, empty frozen wonderland. You probably don’t think about the noise. But according to a new study published in the journal...
