Having a near-death experience taught me how to live better

After an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured, Georgina Scull spoke to people around the world facing death – and discovered the regrets they want us all to learn from

Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell

Nobody could read my writing but, desperate to conjure another world, I eventually became an author

Are you anxious, introverted or just a ‘highly sensitive person’?

Kanye West and Lorde say they are HSPs. What’s the science behind this newly popular label for understanding our ability to process feelings?

My mum’s memory was fading, until we made curtains together – a beautiful parting gift

Just before she moved away, my increasingly forgetful mum remembered exactly how to get to grips with an old craft

Tonight in Britain the clocks will go forward – all except mine

With the EU and US voting to scrap hour changes, I’m glad to see the world finally catching up with me, says Stefano Pavone, founder of anti-daylight savings movement Hora Solaris

Hitting the high notes: the lessons of all singing from the same sheet

Singing with others is a joyful thing, even in difficult times, writes Joe Moran

If you find everyone else boring you only have yourself to blame

Birdwatchers, church-goers and TV addicts are considered dull, according to new research. But this is stereotyping - let’s embrace the mundane

Bless you! Meet the flu hunters trying to stop the next pandemic in its tracks

Remember flu? Despite lockdowns holding it at bay, a small group of scientists is searching the globe for deadly new strains – and to work out what to put in next winter’s vaccines

My son’s passion for football has reawakened in me a deep sense of belonging

My nine-year-old’s curiosity about the place I grew up and where generations of my family were raised has made me look at it with new eyes, says Robert Yates

Watch Strictly, eat sauerkraut, win at Monopoly: expert tips for hacking your happy hormones

Can we really harness our brain chemicals to give ourselves a blast of positivity? Researchers share their shortcuts to boosting oxytocin, serotonin and more