Live Hacker

We spend a lot of time staring at screens. There’s the small screen in our pocket, the big screen we watch our shows on, and the medium scre...

Pfizer and BioNTech announced today that they have completed a phase 3 trial of their COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 12 to 15, and that s...

There are many ways to exercise for fun and happiness and health, but personally, I think the very best is to lift some heavy-ass weights. A...

Products containing CBD are often marketed for pain relief, but there’s no solid evidence that they actually do anything. In fact, the FDA r...

Why run on a boring old road when you could run in the woods? There’s beautiful scenery, birds, and that triumphant post-run feeling of know...

When you buy food in the grocery store, you do so with the confidence that it has been inspected, and is therefore probably safe for you to...

Microdosing—the act of taking small amounts of usually psychedelic drugs—has been popular with a certain type of person looking for more pro...

The man who killed eight people, six of them Asian-American women, at spas in Atlanta told police he had a “sexual addiction.” Other men hav...

At this point, it can be easy to ignore headlines on the latest studies claiming that a particular food is “bad” for you—or, conversely, has...

The US government maintains a database called VAERS, to which anybody can file a report if they think something bad happened to them after r...

I’m starting to side with the Lifehacker commenters on this one: Drinking an arbitrary amount of water each day (one gallon, in this case) f...

No matter how many articles you’ve read on resilience, virtual vacations, or fake commutes, there’s no getting around the fact that the past...

Plenty of fitness trackers these days will tell you your VO2max, sometimes referring to it as a “cardio fitness” score or telling you that y...

Of the COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the US, one (Pfizer) is available for people aged 16 and up, and the other two (Moderna and Johnson &...

Run long enough and far enough, and something will start to chafe. Maybe your thighs, maybe your bra straps, maybe some random spot that was...

Vaccines are becoming more available and coronavirus cases are dropping nationwide. If you stayed home all winter, you might be wondering if...

Protein is essential when you’re building muscle. Muscle tissue is made of protein, which means it is made of amino acids, and those amino a...

There are plenty of great apps to keep track of your running mileage, and a clear winner when it comes to cycling (Strava, duh). But it’s a...

A gallon is a lot of something. Drink that much milk, and you’ll surely get at least 100,000 YouTube views—or more—if you catalogue the afte...

Look, sometimes you don’t have time to wait. Whether you want to poop now to be sure you won’t later, or you just need some relief, here are...

It’s spring again, and if you’ve been lamenting a snowy winter, the roads are probably beckoning. Why not dust off those running shoes and g...

If you’re waiting impatiently for your turn to get a vaccine, you probably already know all the tricks to snag an appointment. (If not, we h...

When you peel off your sweaty workout clothes, you may be tempted to just throw them in the laundry with everything else. But performance fa...

There’s a name for the feeling of sadness we get if we spend too much time alone: We are lonely. But what about the negative feelings that c...

Whenever I see a compelling ad for a new health or fitness product or hear about a tantalizing trend, I must admit I’m as tempted as anybody...