2 March 2022
A growing body of evidence suggests that doing things that make your sense of self fall away can make people happier, less stressed and even kinder to others. Here's our short guide to achieving this state
20 January 2022
Infants and toddlers seem to expect people who exchange saliva, for example by taking bites of the same food, to be close enough to comfort each other if one gets upset
1 April 2022
Steven Pinker challenges the orthodoxy that sees Homo sapiens as a species stuck in the past, with an ancient brain fuelled by biases, fallacies and illusions, incapable of understanding the complexities of the modern world
7 April 2021
We tend to default to solving problems by adding features rather than removing them, potentially failing to recognise efficient solutions that involve simplification
17 March 2021
How old you feel matters for how long you will live. Here's how you can reduce your psychological age
13 January 2021
A positive outlook, even just on the day of receiving a vaccine, as well as strong social ties and a happy relationship can help increase antibodies made in response to a shot
9 December 2020
We have a strong sense of continuous, coherent existence – yet from the cells that make our bodies to our defining character traits, we are in a constant state of change
2 December 2020
The prehistoric cognitive revolution that saw an explosion of inventions was driven by a new, pattern-seeking network in the brain – and that’s highly correlated with autism today, says researcher Simon Baron-Cohen
8 July 2020
People who lose loved ones to covid-19 may be more at risk of developing prolonged grief disorder because of the unique circumstances surrounding the death
1 July 2020
The leadership styles of Donald Trump and Jacinda Ardern are dramatically different, but our evolutionary history explains both – and why our preferences have changed
