What is the best punctuation mark?
No sentence is complete without one, yet they are often taken for granted. Six writers pick their favourite
For decades, the way bad news was broken was, as one official British report put it, “deeply insensitive”. Now we do it better, thanks to the efforts of one American widow
There used to be many reported sightings of UFOs, but modern life has not been kind to them
Sometimes thinking is a bad idea. Ian Leslie draws on Dylan, Djokovic and academic research to put the case for unthinking
The notion of free will is under attack again, this time from the advance of neuroscience
The brain likes a challenge – and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity
Seemingly trivial things have a huge influence on the way that we make decisions, research shows.
