This Is What Every Fire Season Could Soon Look Like

Jane Derijcke sorts through her burnt possessions in Hastings, Victoria, after a wildfire destroyed her home. Mike Keating/Newspix/Rex Features via AP Australian fire crews are battling some of the worst wildfires the state of South Australia has seen in decades....

When Medical Apps Do More Harm Than Good

Alexei Vella In 2013, when Julie Hudak read about an iPhone app that could diagnose skin cancer, she downloaded it right away. Her husband and sister-in-law had both died of melanoma, and she didn’t want to miss any early signs of the disease in her three...

Friends Don't Let Friends Walk Drunk

The champagne’s been flowing since noon. You did the 12 grapes at midnight thing, danced to the requisite amount of Beyoncé, and it’s time to collapse. Car keys are off-limits, obviously, but you’ve heard all those Uber holiday pricing horror...

How Science Can Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

marekuliasz/Thinkstock We’ve all heard this advice before. We might have even passed it on to encourage a struggling friend or to mentor a younger person: Follow your dreams. Imagine the future that you want, and it will come to pass. And yet, we still struggle...

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