Wellness

My Baby Won’t Sleep. Help Me AI, You’re My Only Hope.

Sleepless babies can drive modern parents to desperation. Can bots, algorithms, and apps actually help?

By Elizabeth Preston

The FDA Banned These Chemicals — and They’re Still Everywhere

Antibacterial compounds are no longer in your hand soap, but they’re in your floors, your walls, and in your body.

By Maryn McKenna

What My Smart Shoes Taught Me

How you track your steps matters way less than who you do it with.

By Jessica Carew Kraft

Forget Sleep Tracking—Try Sleep Hacking

A review of three devices: SleepScore Max, Eight Sleep, and Dreem.

By Bob Parks

How Your Phone Can Keep You from Getting Depressed

The same device that is driving you crazy could hold the keys to solving our mental health crisis.

By Rob Waters

Will a $5,000 Checkup Save Your Life?

Craig Venter is betting that something is lurking in your body and you’d better address it now.

By Jane Metcalfe

The End of Hangovers

Leave it to the Brits to invent a synthetic alcohol that gets you properly pickled and doesn’t make you feel poisoned.

By Zoe Cormier

From Molecules to Megacities: How Life Scales

Geoffrey West’s monumental book “Scale” channels math and physics to explore the limits of our biology, our companies, and our civilization.

By Esther Dyson

What to Do While Waiting for Neural Lace

Step one: breathe…

By Brian Bergstein

The Anti-Aging Habits of Longevity Experts

These people are all researching ways to halt or reverse aging. So what are they doing to help themselves live longer?

By Karen Weintraub

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