Why everyone is lifting weights – and how to get started (whatever your size)
Are reps or weights more important? Is it good if it hurts? How should I structure my workouts? Everything you need to know about resistance training, from the experts
Daylight saving haters rejoice: scientists confirm it’s bad for health
US Congress is debating permanent daylight saving – but new research shows keeping clocks on standard time is least stressful on the body
My blood type made me a donor superhero – until my weakness for crisps let me down
‘It’s such a shame,’ said the nurse as she turned me away from the donation centre, and I realised my assumptions about being O-negative were all wrong
I spent months testing insomnia cures – then grieving for a pet made sleep impossible
What sleep aids can’t fix; eco-friendly period products; and LED face masks, tested
The one change that worked: I used to sip Red Bull to get me out of bed – until I tried the 3-2-1 method
It’s always been difficult for me to throw off the covers and get going. Now, a self-imposed short, sharp shock has brought order and urgency into my life
Is it true that … doing puzzles prevents dementia?
Completing a fiendish jigsaw certainly engages many areas of the brain, but genetics and other lifestyle factors also play their part
‘We’re exhausted – but not from doing too much’: can this woman help us survive the age of distraction?
With three jobs, three children and a labradoodle, the behavioural scientist Zelana Montminy knows a lot about being pulled in all directions. What can her new book about finding focus teach the rest of us?
Try again. Fail again. Fail better: eight things I’ve learned in my year of ‘lifting heavy’
I didn’t expect to enjoy heaving chunks of metal. But lifting has paid off for me in surprising ways – and shown I can change my life dramatically, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington
Readers reply: Can art save lives?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
How modern life makes us sick – and what to do about it
From depression to obesity, the concept of ‘evolutionary mismatch’ can help foster self-compassion and point the way to a more rewarding existence