Olga Khazan

CycleBeads are among the apps offering to help with "user-directed birth control."

Sex without the Pill? There’s an app for that!

Health

You might have thought of the “rhythm method” of family planning as discredited and low-tech. Not anymore. Fertility awareness mobile apps are reinventing the rhythm approach by adding precision and detail to calendar-based efforts to monitor a woman’s hormonal cycle.

How artists and sculptors healed maimed soldiers during World War I

Conflict