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Welcome back to another moral dilemmas poll, where we pick your brain a little by placing you in situations that demand certain calls to action. Do you truly know how you’d react if a friend did this or that, or a coworker said this and that about you?This poll throws…

Exclusive: The Children’s Trust, a flagship unit in Surrey, was criticised over staffing levels after three children died while in its care

20th Century Cycles on Long Island, New York, will close down after nearly 15 years

Lifestyle medicine uses interventions to prevent and manage chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and dementia

Many of us would struggle to recall the last time we wrote anything substantial by hand. Digital devices often feel more convenient and efficient. But research shows that the intricate motor skills and visual processing required for handwriting encourages more extensive brain activity than typing.

Merge Labs venture comes after OpenAI boss Sam Altman said the race to embed AI in humans is ‘going to get a lot weirder’

OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, is reportedly planning to invest in a new venture called Merge Labs, which will compete with Elon Musk‘s Neuralink in connecting human brains with computers.

“If the left half of the brain controls the right half of the body then only left-handed people are in the right mind.” - W.C. Fields

IN FOCUS: We’re told our subconscious mind quietly governs almost everything we do, from our finances to our relationships. But how much control do we really have over it? Hannah Ewens tries to reprogram hers using techniques like Psych-K – and the results were unexpected