The science and ethics of voluntary amputation
Mo Costandi: Should amputation be offered as a treatment to people suffering from Body Integrity Identity Disorder?
This column will change your life: when is a brick not a brick?
Or how overcoming functional fixedness can help solve a candle problem or two… By Oliver Burkeman
Take a survey comparing the sleeping habits of Germans and Britons
Professor Russell Foster explains how society, genes and light all interact to generate individual sleep patterns
Susan Cain: ‘Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts’
Bestselling author Susan Cain tells Ian Tucker about on the cultural dominance of extroverts
Happy adolescents ‘likely to have higher income’ as adults
Research finds link between upbeat personalities and earnings
The truth about depression: six people speak out
It is an illness that can affect anyone, and prescriptions for antidepressants are soaring, yet depression is still badly misunderstood. Here, six people talk candidly about how it changed their lives
This column will change your life: asked a tricky question? Answer an easier one
We all do it, all the time. So how can we get rid of this eccentricity, asks Oliver Burkeman
Why anti-choice campaigners won’t let science get in their way
Amanda Marcotte: Research claiming a link between abortion and mental illness in women always gets debunked, but do these ideologues care?
Global experiment probes the deceptions of human memory
Preliminary results are in from a huge online experiment designed to test a flaw in the way the brain stores memories