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In Depth

Empathy for our fellow human beings can have a dark side (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth

The surprising downsides of empathy

By Richard Fisher

This photo of Barack Obama circulated in 2008, but is fake - the clock is a clue, a reference to a Hillary Clinton TV ad about picking up the phone at 3:00 (Credit: Snopes)
In Depth
How to spot fake photos
By Tiffanie Wen
For further clarity, the dots here are annotated. So what does the shape mean? (Credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation/CC BY 3.0)
Lockdown Longreads
Why printers add secret tracking dots
By Chris Baraniuk
Calorie restriction involves a permanent reduction in a diet (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
The secret to a long and healthy life?
By Alex Riley
The programme, Chibanda believes, can serve as a blueprint for any community (Credit: The Friendship Bench Zimbabwe)
In Depth
Zimbabwe's radical cure for depression
By Rachel Nuwer from Zimbabwe
Like other popular areas including Sunny Isles and Hollywood Beach, Miami Beach is a narrow barrier island with the ocean on one side (Credit: Alamy)
In Depth
Miami’s fight against rising seas
By Amanda Ruggeri
Woman rivetting aircraft (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
Why we view pandemics like a war
By Adrienne Bernhard
(Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
Should you be taking vitamin D?
By Jessica Brown
In our modern world, we allow our lives to be run by tight time schedules, but maybe not everything has to run like clockwork (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
Why avoiding clocks may be good for you
By Lakshmi Sandhana
There may have once been hundreds of thousands of tigers in India's forests (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
Should man-eating tigers be killed?
By Rachel Nuwer in Karnataka, India
Language fluency can be an elusive goal (Credit: Alamy)
In Depth
What does being ‘fluent’ really mean?
By Eva Sandoval
Stem cell treatments often fail to live up to expectations (Credit: Alamy)
Health
The unproven hype of stem cell therapy?
By Jules Montague
(Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
How to be stress proof
By Mithu Storoni
(Credit: Alamy)
In Depth
Why we should live in wooden buildings
By Tim Smedley
(Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
What is the future of sex?
By Brandon Ambrosino
Each skeleton tells the story of its owner's life (Credit: Alamy)
In Depth
How modern life is changing our bones
By Zaria Gorvett
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