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Mind

What the world’s happiest countries can teach us about joyful living

As editor of the World Happiness Report, few people know more than Jan-Emmanuel De Neve about what makes a country happy. He reveals what we can learn from the nations where people feel the most content

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Hellisheidi geothermal power station in Hengill, Iceland. Steam billows out of tall towers, next to a small non-descript warehouse. Pipes come out of the ground. The entire facility is surrounded by wild Icelandic mountains

Environment

How to unlock unlimited geothermal energy, anywhere we want

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Mind

How to maximise the mental health benefits of your vacation

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Physics

Strange paraparticles could be reality’s missing ingredient

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jasper Jacobs/Belga/Shutterstock (16985880bv) Norwegian Soren Waerenskjold of Uno-X Mobility sprints to the finish of the stage 7 of the 2026 Tour de France cycling race, a stage of 175km from Hagetmau to Bordeaux, on Friday 10 July 2026. The 113th edition of the Tour de France starts on Saturday 4 July in Barcelona, Spain, and will finish in Paris, France on the 26th of July. Cycling Tour De France 2026 Stage 7, Hagetmau, France - 10 Jul 2026

Health

How elite athletes have started training to compete in extreme heat

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Mind

We’re finally learning what happens to gifted children in adulthood

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Environment

Can everyone live a ‘good life’ without destroying the planet?

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Health

Alzheimer’s, stroke, depression: The preventative power of sauna

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Mind

Occam’s razor has lost its edge. Can we sharpen our search for truth?

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Physics

The strange metals forcing us to rethink how electricity really works

Some 40 years ago, physicists noticed certain metals were conducting electricity in a bizarre way no one could explain. New answers to how and why this happens are forcing us to question how electricity flows

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Mind

How healthy is your brain? We now know how to find out

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Space

This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

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Humans

Humans sleep the least of all apes – is it the secret to our success?

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Environment

The race to understand how and when Thwaites glacier will collapse

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