'Forest Bathing': How Microdosing on Nature Can Help With Stress
The practice, long-popular in Japan, is gaining traction in the U.S. as a way of harnessing the health benefits of being outdoors.
A Map That Shows You Everything Wrong With Your Brain
Technology that compares your brain’s electrical activity to everyone else’s could revolutionize mental-health treatments—or worsen people’s obsessions with perfection.
Can Your DNA Tell You the Healthiest Way to Live Your Life?
Genetic-sequencing companies are going beyond ancestry and disease risk to offer specific lifestyle recommendations.
The Bespoke High Is the Future of Marijuana
A California company makes weed vaporizers to suit every mood—here’s what happened when I tried them.
A Clever New Way to Predict Next Year's Flu
A study suggests an unusual strategy to make vaccines more effective.
Psychics Who Hear Voices Could Be On to Something
The ways some “healthy voice hearers” cope might be able to help people with psychotic disorders.
The Injection That Melts a Double Chin
A noninvasive, nonsurgical procedure is enticing customers who might not otherwise seek out cosmetic treatments.
Is Fear of Flying Contagious?
Trapped in a metal tube in the sky, I might be spreading my anxiety to those around me.
I Tried a Spa Treatment Designed to Produce the Tingly Feeling of ‘ASMR’
Two artists are trying to translate relaxing YouTube videos into an in-person treatment—complete with tapping, whispering, and face-brushing.
Infrared Saunas Will Not ‘Detoxify’ You
The popular spa treatment is certainly relaxing—but its purveyors make a lot of false claims.
Can This App Make Me Happier?
For months I tried doing little tasks designed to improve my life, hoping they would add up to something big.
I Quit Showering, and Life Continued
We spend two full years of our lives washing ourselves. How much of that time (and money and water) is a waste?
That Time I Tried BDSM Therapy
Not all therapists take the gentle approach.
‘Wanna Grab a Marijuana Tea After Work?’
As pot laws liberalize, cannabis capitalists eye opportunities for business—and to upend stereotypes. But can white-collar workers handle it, man?