Sex and Relationships

In these deeply uncertain times, it’s really the little things that can keep us sane. Take the tiniest bottle of Champagne in my Brooklyn, N.Y., home. It’s about two-inches tall, and its content costs roughly $1 per ounce. Pop the plastic cork, and you’ll find a narrow wand from which you can […]

So you’ve worked out, done a little cooking, decluttered. And you still have time on your hands. How about a little work on yourself? Here are five things you can do to emerge from social distancing, a new and improved you. Make or break a habit: It takes 21 days to form a habit, […]

With the coronavirus pandemic forcing everyone to stay at home, being around your family members and partner for an extended period of time could be a challenge. And while it gives those in relationships ample time together, it also familiarises you to things that normally would have been avoided had they been in office. […]

When two Spanish footballers took to the controls of FIFA 20 after the coronavirus pandemic saw their La Liga match cancelled, a stadium-sized virtual audience watched online. The huge digital crowd last week is part of a spectacular boom for the digital gaming industry, as record numbers flock to online servers for […]

An unruly bed, packets of chips scattered on the floor, an overflowing laundry bag, a stacked-up medicine cabinet, coronavirus news running 24/7, and an employee glued to his laptop. The scenario for everyone working from home, after the coronavirus alert, looks more or less the same. And like with any […]

When Argentine couple Diego Aspitia and Sofia Cuggino got engaged to be married a year ago, they set a date in March, but like countless others across the globe, their wedding fell victim to the coronavirus lockdown. Argentina went into a nationwide lockdown last week and faced with a choice of […]

Dutch sex workers risk being trafficked and mistreated by dangerous clients as the shutdown of Amsterdam’s sex clubs, to prevent the spread of coronavirus, is likely to drive the trade underground, according to sex industry campaigners. Lyle Muns, a sex worker in Amsterdam, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that he had stopped seeing […]

Stephane, a 32-year-old financier in Manhattan, recently updated his Bumble profile to read: “Healthy male with a strong immune system and robust Purell supply.” He got a quick reply from a New York woman, who fired back a private message: “Tell me your secret—how did you get a robust Purell supply? I had […]

A group of researchers has found that people rate their own body more negatively when embodied in it, compared to viewing their exact same body except as an outsider. So, how exactly do we view our own body as an outsider? The experts from the Experimental Virtual Environments (EVENT) Lab at […]

Listening to music for 30 minutes every day can be good for your heart as researchers have found that patients who suffered episodes of chest pain soon after a heart attack, known as early post-infarction angina, had significantly lower levels of anxiety and pain. The new study suggests music, combined with standard […]

Globally, things are as tough as they could be. A viral pandemic has gripped the world, over thousands have died and more than 120,000 people have tested positive. But difficult times call for greater efforts to sustain hope and smile in the world. As March 20 is the International Day of […]

Americans have been told to hunker down at home for several weeks in order to slow transmission of the novel coronavirus, but a truly effective shutdown would likely have to be significantly longer and more severe. The best way to prevent the pandemic from overwhelming hospitals is social distancing that could drag […]

From walking fake dogs to donning skin suits, here are a few Italian ways of keeping boredom at bay during a national lockdown, something the nation of 60 million has been doing for over a week. – Walk dogs, but only live ones – Italy is a land of dog lovers — […]

Scents or odours has a great potential in triggering the memory of past experiences and also a tool to treat memory-related mood disorders, suggests researchers from Boston University’s (BU) Center for Systems Neuroscience. “If odour could be used to elicit the rich recollection of a memory — even of a traumatic […]

A whopping 92 per cent Indians check their phones just before going to sleep, said a study on Tuesday which revealed that digital services have emerged as a major sleep disruptor, adversely affecting the health of people. Of the 50,000 responses collected for the study, 54 per cent said they indulged […]