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Challenges offer growth. They create opportunity to make mistakes and learn from them and discover that we can overcome difficulty when we try hard enough to get what we want. But not all challenges help. Some are too easy or too hard at certain points in your life. How have you approached the...

You can encrypt email on an iPhone with your standard Mail app or with apps from the App Store, no jailbreaking required. The Apple experts at Stack Exchange provide some tips. Read more...

iPhone: You have plenty of options for timers for your iPhone, but if you're looking for something a little more fun, Humming Timer allows you to set a timer, and then it picks a song from your music library that matches that time. Read more...

The Raspberry Pi is great for powering all kinds of home automation projects. If you want to get those power outlets connected the internet so you can control them from anywhere, DIYer Jack Minardi shows off how to do just that. Read more...

Mac/iOS: ia Writer is one of the more popular minimal text editors out there, and Writer Pro for both Mac and iOS is something of a step up from that. While it retains the simplicity of just offering text on a page, Writer Pro also adds in several modes for different steps of writing and an...

This week we found some worthwhile uses for tablets, learned the essential kitchen skills no one taught you, discovered the most popular grammar mistakes, and explored the best alternatives to Photoshop. Here's a look back. Read more...

Amazon's add-on items are very inexpensive, but they require you to order at least $25 of other items. If you want to get the item shipped by itself, Redditor Affinity2412 offers this hack: Read more...

A veritable who's-who of great indie iOS apps are all on sale today as part of the App Santa holiday promotion. The complete list is below, and they're all fantastic. Read more...

Dec. 20, 2013 — Those looking for honest companies to invest in might want to check out businesses based in more religious communities, suggests a new paper from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. The study found that businesses with head offices in places with high levels...

Dec. 20, 2013 — Researchers from Boston University's School of Medicine (BUSM) and College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) found that among HIV-infected Russian drinkers, depressive symptom severity alone was not significantly associated with lower rates of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation...

Dec. 20, 2013 — Those looking for honest companies to invest in might want to check out businesses based in more religious communities, suggests a new paper from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. The study found that businesses with head offices in places with high levels...

Dec. 20, 2013 — Computing resources at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have helped researchers better grasp how proteins misfold to create the tissue-damaging structures that lead to type 2 diabetes. The structures, called amyloid fibrils, are also implicated in...

Dec. 20, 2013 — Scientists from The University of Manchester -- part of Manchester Cancer Research Centre believe they have discovered a new way to make chemotherapy treatment more effective for pancreatic cancer patients. Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive cancer with poor prognosis and limited...

Dec. 20, 2013 — Massive stars -- those at least 8 times the mass of our Sun -- present an intriguing mystery: how do they grow so large when the vast majority of stars in the Milky Way are considerably smaller? To find the answer, astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...

Dec. 20, 2013 — Computerized neurocognitive testing for concussions is widely used in amateur and professional sports, but little research over the past decade proves its effectiveness, a paper published this month in the journal Neuropsychology Review says. Jacob Resch, director of the Brain...

Dec. 20, 2013 — A new optical device puts the power to detect eye disease in the palm of a hand. The tool -- about the size of a hand-held video camera -- scans a patient's entire retina in seconds and could aid primary care physicians in the early detection of a host of retinal diseases...

Dec. 20, 2013 — Thinking about time as a cycle of recurring experiences -- a reality Bill Murray's character knows all too well in the movie Groundhog Day -- may help us to put more money away into our savings, according to new research. The findings are published in Psychological Science, a...

The hardest part about doing laundry isn't the sorting, stain-removing, washing, drying, or folding. It's getting those clean clothes back where they belong (and not using your laundry basket as a makeshift dresser). Fool yourself into finishing that essential last step. Read more...

What’s the Best Way to Share Large Files with Friends? Dear Lifehacker, I share a lot of large files with my friends, but it seems like everyone uses different services. What's the easiest way to do it? Read more...

It's normal for us to stuff our faces over the holidays—normal, if not ideal. The Guardian points out the science behind why we eat so much even when we're full, and answers the puzzling question of why kids suddenly say they don't like a food they definitely do. Read more...