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Earth

Changing clocks twice a year is bad for health and energy use

Are you feeling tired today? Much of the UK got up an hour earlier this morning, a change that has been linked to heart attacks and strokes in some countries

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Family leaps into swimming pool together

Health

Why we are so bad at spotting if our kids are overweight

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Doll with pins stuck in it

Health

Being 'hangry' exists: why a lack of food can change your mood

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sigh saying 'truth or consequences'

Humans

Fake news shapes our opinions even when we know it's not true

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Isy Suttie, who experiences the tingly feelings of ASMR, playing guitar and singing

Humans

Video-triggered ‘brain orgasms’ are mysteriously disappearing

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Hands extend through a barred door

Humans

Abolishing locked psychiatric wards could put patients at risk

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Donation box labelled

Humans

Knowing you're being manipulated doesn't stop it from happening

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Do women sync up? No, but we can't resist menstruation myths

Health

Do women sync up? No, but we can't resist menstruation myths

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silhouette of a person next to a sign pointing the way to a polling station

Humans

Our biases get in the way of understanding human behaviour

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A well providing drinking water to the tiny town of Hugo, Colo. is treated as a crime scene, July 22, 2016. Residents of the small town have been told not to drink the water after it was found to be contaminated with THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana -- possibly a result of tampering.

Health

Why do we fall for false positives even though they're common?

From cannabis in the water supply to breast cancer screening, so many of the tests we use routinely give false results – so why don’t we expect them?

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Humans

The Pandora Effect: Why curiosity usually beats common sense

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Humans

We’re discovering new ways to detect if someone is lying

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Health

Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws

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Humans

Evolutionary forces are causing a boom in bad science

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