Cold-­water bathing has a long history as a health hack. The ancient Greeks and Romans partook to treat fevers. Eighteenth-­century mental institutions employed a tactic called the bain de surprise, ...

Bill Gifford is a co-author of the bestselling book Outlive and a contributing editor at Outside magazine. His most recent book is Hotwired.

After a decade of trashing American allies as freeloaders, President Trump is begging for their help in opening the Strait of ...

But Kozmo.com, just one of many examples, shows how likely the first mover in a sector is to founder or fail or fall out of favor: Friendster and Myspace were first in social networking, but Facebook ...

Yet even though overpopulation is an issue as dated as Dacron pants or disco, Ehrlich helped give an imprimatur of scholarly authority to a new kind of politics—a politics of scarcity—that has proved ...

Fame famously lasts for only 15 minutes, as the Andy Warhol axiom goes, and then it’s off to the land of pub-quiz deep cuts.

They measure the buildup of solids on the bottom of the pipe with sonar and try to estimate the corrosion on the top, where ...

Spring is just about here, if you go by its official start date, on the equinox. But in the American West, it feels like we skipped right to summer. A record-smashing heat dome has settled over a huge ...

We are roasting out here. This is not normal. Or at least it wasn’t normal in the past. The heat wave is happening because of a bizarrely strong ridge of high pressure in Earth’s atmosphere. The ridge ...

The party still refuses to prioritize the most important parts of its agenda and make the case that they’re worth paying for.

In between insisting that she was, in fact, totally fine, and that everything was probably for the best, she told me that her (now ex-) partner had accused her of cheating. My friend had not, to be ...

What did I get from my friends, and what did I have to offer them? I sipped my tea—it was cold. In the days following my son’s comment, I began thinking more and more about my friends and how long it ...