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Health

Feeling lonely? You're not on your own

Anyone can feel lonely, even when surrounded by friends, and loneliness is on the up. How can we curb its devastating effect on people's mental and physical health?

Features

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Humans

Ready for anything: The best strategies to survive a disaster

Features

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Life

Wish you had a shorter workday? Here's why that's a bad idea

Insight

Lone soldier

Health

Screening soldiers doesn’t protect them from mental illness

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Technology

Smart wristband tracks vital signs to keep truckers moving

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It’s harder than you might think to appreciate silence

Health

It’s harder than you might think to appreciate silence

Culture

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Life

How sharing other people's feelings can make you sick

Features

Europe must ease the impact of trauma on refugees, not worsen it

Health

Europe must ease the impact of trauma on refugees, not worsen it

Comment

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Life

Plants have evolved forgetfulness to wipe out memory of stress

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Why music therapy is making a comeback

Health

Why music therapy is making a comeback

We evolved as music lovers. Now there's evidence that it can lower blood pressure and lighten anxiety – and it reaches part of the brain other treatments don't

Features

Health

Panic, depression and stress: The case against meditation

Opinion

Life

Early pregnancy trauma boosts schizophrenia risk

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