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Screen time has been linked to all sorts of problems, from depression and obesity to poor sleep. But how worried should you really be? Jacob Aron sifts through the evidence ...

Helena Saremba is a freelance science writer from Germany. She reports on health, climate and the life sciences, with a ...

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The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...