Musical, playful and absurd – how one Icelandic artist forged a philosophy of creativity by simply giving things a try ...

Growing up, most of us are taught that honesty is the best policy. However, we soon learn that this ‘policy’ resides more in theory than in practice. On average, people tell one or two lies every day.

Alizeh Kohari is a writer, editor and reporter who divides her time between Pakistan and the United States. She most recently worked at Global Press, training reporters across the world, from Mexico ...

Though it’s intuitive that we’re vulnerable to these more nebulous forces, the mechanism by which they harm us is less ...

The struggle is real when word retrieval goes wrong: see what’s happening in the brain during tip-of-the-tongue moments ...

Runners, yogis and others claim weed improves their routines. Curious, I looked at the research and gave it a go myself ...

After one friend was shot and another stabbed – both fatally – a London teenager named Shan turned to ChatGPT. She had tried conventional mental health services first but, like a quarter of teenagers ...

Fear has typically been understood as a forward-looking emotion. In his Rhetoric, Aristotle defined it as that negative feeling (‘a disturbance’) that is due to ‘a mental picture of some destructive ...

With stigma and misunderstanding surrounding mental health, it’s vital to know the benefits and limits of a formal diagnosis Just as nearly everyone experiences physical health problems such as ...

Hope is indispensable. But when false hope blinds us to reality, a short bout of despair might be the antidote we need Our species has a remarkable ability to imagine the future. Though birds, bees, ...

For someone experiencing a panic attack, fear can become an all-consuming feedback loop, with a fit of anxiety quickly careening into a fear that they might lose control and faint, or even die. In ...