I can be quite annoying as a travel companion. I do like the sunshine, but it can’t be too hot, otherwise I’ll be retiring to the shade of my room and reading a book, and refusing to go out until the evening.

Given the extremely high temperatures seen in tourist resorts in southern Europe in recent summers, it surely makes sense for us to try and get away outside the peak summer months, when possible. This is already a trend – called coolcations. People are looking for holiday destinations that are less likely to involve extreme heat, so they won’t have to hide away in their hotel room all day.

As Mehri Khosravi from the University of East London explains, this also means tourist destinations need to make sure they are communicating with visitors as well as locals about how to cope if particularly hot weather hits.

Decisions about what we like and don’t like can be influenced by our individual consciousness. Studies of the brain show this allows us to experience the world not as it is, but as it matters to us personally. This research reveals what makes you “you”.

And following a report showing people in the UK have fewer years of healthy life than a decade ago, we look at how poor quality housing contributes.

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