
Loneliness may damage health in ways isolation does not – new study
Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.
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Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.

Using orphan girl novels to study Ted Lasso brings certain themes into sharper focus – particularly its concern with fatherhood.

Wildfires are sweeping through parts of France and Spain causing havoc to many holidaymakers’ plans. Does travel insurance help with the extra bills?

Children have a right to leisure.

AI-generated fashion models may become the future, but they should be used responsibly.

In the immediate aftermath of Labor’s leadership spill, new polls bring better news for the struggling Coalition.

New blood tests for Alzheimer’s won’t give you an instant diagnosis. Here’s what they’ll tell you instead.

Right now, you can’t advertise a stock market debut before filing a prospectus. Could loosening this rule give shrinking public markets a boost?

The media have the power to make Hanson’s tyrannical attitudes and behaviour a central issue, and their failure to use this power has only emboldened her.

Iran’s new supreme leader is reportedly more interested in building a bomb than his father. Where does this leave future negotiations?

Multiple pressures are acting simultaneously in threatening Tapanuli orangutan — from extractive industries to logging to agricultural expansion and, increasingly, climate-related disasters.

The golden age of the Hollywood remarriage comedy featured pairings such as Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Now, these films are back with a psychological twist.