What a Therapist Wants You to Know About Remote Therapy
I felt like a thawing glacier. Still chilly, I contacted my colleague, Jo-e Sutton, a certified holistic health practioner. She surprised...
Science
How Chronic Illness Patients Are ‘Hacking’ Their Wearables
In the months after giving birth to my son in March 2019, my Fitbit started recording some unusual heart rate...
How to Create Your Optimal Bedtime Routine
Routines, even when not fully followed, provide a guiding structure to the chaos of human life. I shower in the...
Robots Are Helping Immunocompromised Kids ‘Go to School’
That was the key; those interactions that I craved in the hospital were the same that many missed during the...
How to Find Your Vaccine History—and Store It Safely
If you want to update an incomplete IIS record, you can request vaccination records from prior health care providers, local...
The Best Gear to Take to the Moon
Command module pilot Michael Collins, the third member of the Apollo 11 mission, was issued a pair of sunglasses as...
How I Became a Robot in London—From 5,000 Miles Away
I am but a babe, exploring the world for the first time. Wearing a computerized glove, I reach forward in...
SpaceX Is Sending Its First Crew-Ready Capsule to the ISS
On Saturday, SpaceX is taking its most ambitious step yet toward launching people into space. It’s not sending anyone with...
How Many Times Do You Have to Slap a Chicken to Cook It?
Could you cook a chicken by slapping it? This recent meme may not sound like a good physics question at...
Since China’s Ban, Recycling in the US Has Gone Up in Flames
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The...
Calculate How Fast Quicksilver Is Moving in *X-Men Apocalypse*
Just how fast is the X-Men character Quicksilver, also known as Peter Maximoff (and son of Magneto)? This would be...
Is the Universe a Hologram? Maybe! This Math Trick Shows How
The fabric of space and time is widely believed by physicists to be emergent, stitched out of quantum threads according...
Sunscreen Regulations Haven’t Aged Well
The United States may be home to the global epicenter of technology and innovation, but when it comes to things...
Estimate the Friction Coefficient in That Massive Nascar Pile-Up
I don't normally watch many NASCAR races, but I do come across some NASCAR videos online. Sometimes these clips become...
One Woman Pushes Hula-Hooping to Its Absurd, Glittery Limits
On an uncommonly cold and gray Thursday in Los Angeles, in an empty alleyway outside her studio in Chinatown, Marawa...
The Triumphant Rediscovery of the Biggest Bee on Earth
For security reasons, I can’t tell you exactly where Clay Bolt rediscovered Wallace’s giant bee. But I can tell you...
3 Smart Things: What You Might Not Know About Attention
1. We gradually become less attentive as we age—and not just because we stop giving a damn. The phenomenon is...
How the Brain Keeps Its Memories in the Right Order
It began about a decade ago at Syracuse University, with a set of equations scrawled on a blackboard. Marc Howard,...
