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The Best Mattress Toppers I've Tried (2026): Supportive, Plush, Memory Foam

WIRED

I Tested the Best Mattress Toppers for a Good Night's Sleep These toppers will transform your mattress into exactly what you need, whether that's a super-plush pillow top, memory foam, or targeted back support. My hunt for the best mattress toppers has taught me how transformative they can be. It started years before now, when I was throwing my back out nightly on a thin futon mattress in my fresh-out-of-college days. I tried a few cheap sheets of foam that barely helped with my back pain . I gave up for a while and instead switched to a too-soft mattress (equally problematic), until finally finding the right combo: a firm, supportive mattress with a nice mattress topper on top to support my problem areas and side-sleeper shoulder pain. These toppers can alleviate your aches, sink you into insanely comfortable memory foam, and even pack supportive coils like a mattress. My favorite toppers range from soft wool layers and memory foam to firm and even hybrid toppers (yes, you can get mattress toppers with springs in them) to find the best option for you and your mattress. Curious what you should get? Read on to find my best mattress toppers for everything from back pain issues, college students, and more. All prices below are for queen-size toppers. What Is a Mattress Topper?


The Best Black Friday Mattress and Bedding Deals (2025)

WIRED

Some of the best sales of the year on mattresses, mattress toppers, and pillows are happening right now. If you've been dreaming all year of saving serious cash on a new mattress, this is the moment you've been waiting for. From the best mattresses for back pain to our favorite cooling options, these are the top deals on mattresses the WIRED Reviews team has tested in their own homes. We also track prices all year to see where the best sales are really happening. Heads-up: While the prices listed below are for queen sizes, the deals should apply to all mattress sizes.


5 personal care innovations that lived up to the hype in 2024

Popular Science

Plenty of personal care products--the treatments and gadgets that fill our medicine cabinets, home gyms, and vanities--promise innovation. Companies that craft cosmetics, supplements, fitness tools, and other wellness aids tend to go hard on buzzwords without putting in the research to make something truly new. That doesn't mean there aren't worthwhile, forward-thinking personal care products available, though, and this year brought some notable offerings. From high-tech sleep and activity trackers that make peak performance possible to cutting-edge hair dryers that give your scalp a break from burns, these five beauty and wellness products actually back up their big promises. Be sure to read the full list of the 50 greatest innovations of 2024.)


A Human-Centered Approach for Improving Supervised Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Supervised Learning is a way of developing Artificial Intelligence systems in which a computer algorithm is trained on labeled data inputs. Effectiveness of a Supervised Learning algorithm is determined by its performance on a given dataset for a particular problem. In case of Supervised Learning problems, Stacking Ensembles usually perform better than individual classifiers due to their generalization ability. Stacking Ensembles combine predictions from multiple Machine Learning algorithms to make final predictions. Inspite of Stacking Ensembles superior performance, the overhead of Stacking Ensembles such as high cost, resources, time, and lack of explainability create challenges in real-life applications. This paper shows how we can strike a balance between performance, time, and resource constraints. Another goal of this research is to make Ensembles more explainable and intelligible using the Human-Centered approach. To achieve the aforementioned goals, we proposed a Human-Centered Behavior-inspired algorithm that streamlines the Ensemble Learning process while also reducing time, cost, and resource overhead, resulting in the superior performance of Supervised Learning in real-world applications. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, we perform our experiments on nine real-world datasets. Experimental results reveal that the proposed method satisfies our goals and outperforms the existing methods.