If you’re a woman in midlife who has spent any time online recently, you’ve probably come across the words ‘perimenopause’ or ‘brain fog’ in a news article or in your social media feed. Maybe you have ...

‘Resilience’ has become one of our favourite compliments. People praise resilient children, resilient workers, resilient patients, resilient communities. The word shows up in school mission statements ...

Awkwardness is ultimately a form of anxiety – often an uncomfortable, self-conscious feeling that the social order has been punctured in some small way. Yet there can be something quite funny about ...

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Online spaces at the nexus of nutrition and wellbeing are teeming with their own form of junk food – quick fixes, sponsored ‘advice’ and pseudoscience conflated with the real thing. However, as the US ...

The thought experiment known as Newcomb’s paradox pits participants against a supercomputer with near-perfect predictive ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

Roblox is the world’s largest gaming platform for children. More than 110 million people log in each day, most of them under 18, with roughly one-third under 13. Dress to Impress is a game on Roblox ...

Have you ever had a decent conversation in a lift? If not, join the club – being in a lift with a stranger is a universally awkward experience. One reason is the typical duration of a lift journey – ...

In the past decade, researchers have found data suggesting that, on average, the populations of developed Western countries are becoming more stupid. It’s a reversal of the so-called Flynn Effect, ...

A few years ago, Jessica Pan – a young journalist living in London and with the world at her feet – found herself at a low point. Life had become predictable and samey. ‘I realised that I was using ...

We are curious creatures. Not (just) strange, but eager for knowledge. We spend much of our waking lives seeking out and consuming information in some form or another: watching television, listening ...