Health
A meaning to life: How a sense of purpose can keep you healthy
It helps prevent heart attack and stroke, staves off dementia, enables people to sleep better, have better sex and live longer. Oh, and it鈥檚 free
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Humans
The folds in your brain may be linked to how neurotic you are
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Health
Real-life psychopaths actually have below-average intelligence
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Environment
Mice turn into killers when brain circuit is triggered by laser
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Environment
This is why you can’t help babbling to your dog like it’s a baby
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Health
How to make even your toughest new year’s resolutions stick
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Earth
Here’s how experts can rebuild trust in the post-truth era
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Humans
No more drama: The game theory guide to a happy family holiday
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Mind
How we fell in love with our voice-activated home assistants
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Humans
Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder?
US district judge Morris Hoffman weighs up the evidence for the prosecution in Martin Daly's book Killing the Competition, and wonders why murder is so rare
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Humans
Super-you: We鈥檙e all reading each other鈥檚 minds, all the time
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Humans
Super-you: Fine-tune your life by making goals into habits
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Humans
Fake news shapes our opinions even when we know it’s not true
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Humans
Moral consensus: a CEO should earn five times what workers get
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