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Thursday 10 October is World Mental Health Day. This year's theme is "Mental Health at Work". Hold on to HOPE – it won't disappoint you, writes Lizette Rabe.

Primordial Earth was graced by giant bugs but the identity of the biggest of them all – Arthropleura at 8 feet and counting – has been a mystery. Now one with a head has finally been found

The professional dancers will perform a Beyonce medley, with Johannes Radebe channelling his inner Sasha Fierce as the protagonist in the routine.

A six-hour Manchester United board meeting concluded on Tuesday with Erik ten Hag still in position as the club's manager. Why has there been no comment on his future from the club?

Fox News’ Jesse Watters took a break from his election and political propagandizing to give men some dating advice. 

"I am going to protect YOUR vageorgia!"

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Mike Wood told Parliament that he had a 10% chance of survival after suffering life-threatening blood poisoning in 2017.

Talent firms and industry executives list evolving strategies, business growth as contributing to attrition at senior management level

Stock up on fitness equipment for the winter with top Prime Day Peloton deals on exercise bikes and treadmills.

1. The Confidence Illusion: Why You Think You’re Right Even When You’re Wrong  SciTechDaily
2. Study proposes a new bias: The tendency to assume one has adequate information to make a decision  Phys.org
3. Why people insist they’re correct without all the facts  Popular Science
4. Here’s the hidden obstacle sabotaging every decision you make  BBC Science Focus

Govt may still miss the Rs 6 trillion NMP target

Because this is the 50th anniversary of the announcement that Friedrich Hayek was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics (the person who shared it was Gunnar Myrdal), it’s a good time to look closely at his 1945 article in the American Economic Review, “The Use of Knowledge in Society.”

Popular weight-loss medications including Ozempic and Wegovy contain a drug that seems to decrease cravings for food and drugs – and now there’s evidence that it might make exercise less rewarding, too

1. Study proposes a new bias: The tendency to assume one has adequate information to make a decision  Phys.org
2. The Confidence Illusion: Why You Think You’re Right Even When You’re Wrong  SciTechDaily
3. Here’s the hidden obstacle sabotaging every decision you make  BBC Science Focus
4. Why people always think they’re right, according to science  AOL

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have shown that weathering of rocks in the Canadian Arctic will accelerate with rising temperatures, triggering a positive feedback loop that will release more and more CO2 to the atmosphere. The findings have been published in the journal Science Advances.

Satellite data on the proximity of hundreds of M-84 bomb craters to hospitals in the Gaza Strip suggest that, as of November 2023, hospitals were not being given special protection from indiscriminate bombing, as mandated by international humanitarian law. That is one finding of a study published in PLOS Global Public Health by Dennis Kunichoff of Harvard University, and colleagues.

A study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea shows that the patchwork of different ecosystems found in mountainous regions played a key role in the evolution of humans.

Archaeological surveys led by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis suggest that coastal and underwater cave sites in southern Sicily contain important new clues about the path and fate of early human migrants to the island.

New experimental data support the idea that people tend to assume the information they have is adequate to comprehend a given situation, without considering that they might be lacking key information. Hunter Gehlbach of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on October 9, 2024.

Gender biases around male and female roles and under-representation of female characters appeared in textbooks from around the world, with male-coded words appearing twice as often as female-coded words on average, according to a study published October 9, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Lee Crawfurd from the Center for Global Development, United Kingdom, and colleagues.

The final sprint before Election Day will feature one of the world’s most famous politicians in “the world’s most famous arena.” Republican nominee Donald Trump has scheduled an Oct.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Americans do not get enough vacation time. Compared to many developed countries, we’re overworked, overstressed, and underappreciated by our employers.

My first sight of Saturn through a telescope inspired my love of space. Dig out your telescopes or visit your local astronomy club, and you may be lucky enough to spot our sixth planet's stunning thick band of rings, says Leah Crane

In a strange commune, a daily "vitamin" suppresses emotion – until one member decides to throw away the supply. Turn Me On takes a comedic jab at hyper-utilitarianism, says Simon Ings

Feedback uncovers new research into the difference in personality between pet owners, and discovers an apparent strength of spirit in those who plump for canines