If you want to be as attractive as Tom Cruise or Taylor Swift, cancel the glamourous makeover and focus instead on your behaviour. Fans and interviewers alike have described their remarkable charisma. Chatty, smiley and responsive, it's as if Cruise and Swift are truly interested and fully present in every social setting they’re in. This chimes with the psychological literature. Looks can, of course, be a magnet at first, but the more you interact with someone and get to know them, the more it’s

Thousands were sickened in the outbreak tied back to iceberg lettuce sold in grocery stores and eateries.

Too much light exposure during sleep may lead to potentially harmful changes in the structure and function of the heart, a new study suggests.

Lucid dreams, when a person is aware they're dreaming and can often control them, could be induced in people who rarely experience them

An eight-week course of self-administered laughter therapy helped a small number of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease breathe more easily

Many people who have chemotherapy develop numbness, tingling and pain in their hands and feet, which can disrupt their treatment. But research suggests that psilocybin, the psychedelic in magic mushrooms, could prevent this side effect

A pig kidney transplant worked for a record nine months. This enabled the recipient to stay off dialysis for longer while waiting for a suitable human donor's kidney to become available

Alaska has the most number of trees per capita, 43,401.

California has the least number of trees per capita, 20.

I have a friend who is gorgeous, outspoken and seemingly incapable of keeping an opinion to herself. For as long as I have known her, she has also been openly trying to lose weight—constantly trying n

Does that colleague really dislike you, or are you just imagining it? Most of us have wondered whether someone secretly dislikes us, but it can be difficult to tell because people rarely say so directly. Instead, psychologists suggest that social rejection can reveal itself through subtle behavioural cues, from reduced eye contact and particular body language to fleeting (micro) expressions of contempt. So, what are some of the signs that you should look out for? Where we direct our gaze (i.e.,

September 8, 2026, 10:00 AM ET Google DeepMind used AI to predict the effect of all 9 billion possible single-letter mutations that can occur in the human genome. It is making the catalogue of predictions freely available to academic researchers. Google DeepMind said Tuesday that it has used artificial intelligence to predict the biological consequences of all 9 billion possible single-letter changes to human DNA, and is making the resulting database available free to academic researchers

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