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Health

Married people have stronger hands than those who are single

Among men aged 50 or higher those who are married have a stronger grip than bachelors – and remarried men have the strongest grip of all

News

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Humans

The Dream review – a podcast tale of how firms manipulate our brains

Culture

China supermarket

Technology

China is showing the rest of the world how to build a cashless society

Insight

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Humans

Ice from the Alps reveals Europeans ditched gold for silver in AD 660

News

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Comment

Putting a price on CO2 is a smokescreen that hides its human cost

Comment

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Comment

An AI apocalypse isn't the problem – technology-driven inequality is

Comment

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Technology

Venezuela’s cryptocurrency is about much more than its economic crisis

Comment

William Nordhaus and Paul Romer

Physics

Economics Nobel prize given for putting a price tag on climate change

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Mind

Why your brain is hardwired to be bad at economics – and how to fix it

Features

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Comment

Is the rise of populism over or only just beginning?

Ten years after the financial crisis, a leading theory says the political upheavals that followed should now fade away. Is populism's bubble about to burst, asks Simon Oxenham

Comment

If the cashless dream goes sour, it will be the poorest who suffer

Leader

Technology

Why the end of cash could cause a new data disaster

Features

Life

The big slowdown: 6 reasons why UK life expectancy growth is stalling

Insight

Life

Parrots make wise investment decisions to get what they want: walnuts

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