Health & wellbeing

Keratopigmentation: why is eyeball tattooing on the rise?

Name: Keratopigmentation. Age: First described in AD150, but not in a way that would tempt you. Appearance: Your choice. What are we talking about here? Corneal tattooing. Tattooing your cornea, as in your eye?...

How to check a hot-water bottle’s age, and other ways to stay safe and warm

If you’re looking for ways to stay warm this winter, here are several checks you should make to...

Should you make your bed in the morning? Why some doctors say no

Name: Making the bed. Age: I’m a teenager. Go away, leave me alone, I’m in bed, obviously. When you do...

Is it true that … the blue light from night-time scrolling can stop you sleeping?

Struggling to nod off? It’s easy to blame the phone that’s just inches from your face and the...

Why discovering your ancestral roots can help you to truly feel like yourself

There’s a photo somewhere – taken to preserve history – of me swabbing my inner cheek with a...

I love Springsteen and my daughter is a huge Swiftie – and that’s created a bridge between us

It is a cloudy Saturday evening in Edinburgh in early June and I am in a rugby stadium surrounded by young women who are...