With socialising at a near halt during the pandemic, our social muscles have atrophied. We may have to re-train ourselves to be with others again – but how? As host of the podcast Dear Prudence, ...

In a recent podcast interview with The New York Times journalist Ezra Klein, psychiatrist and author of the bestseller The Body Keeps the Score Bessel Van Der Kolk talked about the ways that humans ...

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Students often enter higher education having been well supported and scaffolded in their formal school environments. However, this support may not have prepared learners to succeed in higher education ...

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You may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but you certainly can teach an adult a new language. Many people are put off by research which says we lose our ability to develop fluency in a ...

Some people can speak a seemingly impossible number of tongues. How do they manage it, asks David Robson, and what can we learn from them? Best of 2015 Our top stories This is part of BBC Future’s ...

Your child is learning new things every day. And just as you can help them with their language and reading, there are also ways you can boost your preschooler’s number skills. This is especially ...