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Life

High antidepressant use could lead to UK public health disaster

Use of antidepressants has doubled in the past decade in the UK, and campaigners warn that it could lead to long-term withdrawal and worse mental health

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Humans

To solve a crisis of empathy we must first decide what it is

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Life

How sharing other people's feelings can make you sick

Features

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Health

The Hemsley effect: why we fall for celebrity food advice

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Some adolescents are hugging but one is using a mobile phone behind the other's back

Technology

Do you have a secret? The way you write emails may give it away

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Humans

Nightmare FAQs: The 5 dream questions you were too afraid to ask

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Humans

The upside of nightmares: How bad dreams are also good for you

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Humans

Why are religions so judgemental? Ask evolution

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Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

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Earth

Climate change has been kind to Americans - but it won't last

Most of the US has better weather now than 40 years ago, and this might explain why Americans tend to be less convinced of the dangers of climate change

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Technology

The layout of QWERTY keyboards shapes our feelings about words

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Life

We are zombies rewriting our mental history to feel in control

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Why so much science research is flawed – and what to do about it

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Mind

Science isn't as solid as it should be – but science can fix it

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