Pocket’s Best of 2023: Most Read

There is growing evidence that simple, everyday changes to our lives can alter our brains and change how they work. Melissa Hogenboom put her own brain in the scanner to find out.

How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist with others in society today.

There are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age.

How relationships come to an end and the scourge of the smartphone.

Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.

It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.

Katherine May, the best-selling author, has one simple question to help you get started.

All hail the jobless employed.

Scientists are asking tough questions about the health effects of ultra-processed diets. The answers are complicated—and surprising.

Laced across the cold depths of the world’s oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives.

Browse the stories that defined the year, the best advice from 2023, and more.