This way for brain tingles: ASMR gets a shiver-inducing exhibition

From cucumber-crunchers to cranial exams, YouTube is full of ASMRtists provoking the strangely pleasurable autonomous sensory meridian response. Now they’ve got their own euphoric museum show

The Guardian view on Covid-19 and politics: institutionally vulnerable

Editorial: British government and parliamentary democracy are trapped in outdated buildings and habits. The coronavirus has exposed the need to rethink how they work

Birds, buds and bright days: how spring can make us healthier and happier

Longer, lighter days can help us banish old habits, sleep better and improve our mental health, even during the lockdown

‘Focus on the things you can control’: how to cope with radical uncertainty

We aren’t as powerless as the coronavirus pandemic makes us feel. This is how to stay calm, one Post-it at a time

The Rules of Contagion by Adam Kucharski review – outbreaks of all kinds

Modellers have a saying: “If you’ve seen one pandemic, you’ve seen … one pandemic.” But patterns can be established to do with how things spread

Higher step counts could lower risk of early death, study finds

Monitoring of adults aged 40 or over shows any activity is good and doing more is better

In times of uncertainty, let nature be your refuge

Reconnecting with the natural world – however we can – is a wonderful medicine against anxiety and fear, says author Lucy Jones

‘Happiness is contagious too’: caring for each other makes us feel better – experts

World Happiness Report names Finland the happiest country and shows us how to move forward after the coronavirus outbreak, say experts

Overload in a time of coronavirus

It’s been a surreal week, but under all the stress and fear something good is rising to the top

True numbers of FGM victims could be far higher as countries fail to record cases

New report calls for national surveys by governments to underline scale of worldwide abuse