Contemplation can help problem-solving and boost creativity, study claims

People prefer to keep busy rather than to enjoy a moment of reflection, researchers find

It took catching Covid to get my children out of my bed, but I can finally sleep again

After seven years of sleeping together, this bonding exercise was difficult to stop, and now I’m glad we’ve made the break, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Monkeypox shows that if we can’t talk openly about sex and disease, bigots will

There has been a lack of public information on the virus. Half-truths and homophobia have filled the vacuum, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

How much money is needed for ideal life? Most are OK with £8m, study finds

Research counters idea that everyone wants to be as rich as possible, though many Americans want $100bn

Dream-enactment disorder rose up to fourfold during pandemic, study finds

Exclusive: Condition most prevalent among those who had Covid, raising possibility of link with Parkinson’s disease

Global heating is cutting sleep across the world, study finds

Data shows people finding it harder to sleep, especially women and older people, with serious health impacts

Tories urged not to betray working women by ditching employment bill

Fears flagship bill will be left out of Queen’s speech despite promise to fight sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination

EU officials being trained to meditate to help fight climate crisis

Exclusive: Early results from ‘applied mindfulness’ courses suggests they have helped overcome despair that little can be done

For the first time in 200 years, people on this Canadian island will be without a doctor

Fogo Island will lose its only full-time physician in June, leaving the community to journey six hours away to find care

One down, 39,136 to go: the explorers who walk every street in their city

You don’t really know an urban landscape until you’ve visited all of it on foot – from slums to beauty spots. Just ask the thousands of ‘every-single-streeters’