Last year, ‘brain rot’ was crowned Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year, a term which captured concerns about the impact of consuming “excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on ...

A new multi-university study has identified 'brain rot' in large language models (LLMs), where continual exposure to low-quality, engagement-driven data causes lasting declines in reasoning, ethical ...

Is Gen Z finally logging off? Over the past few years, several studies have confirmed that Gen Z consumes more social media ...

Feel like too much low-quality screen time is making you … dumber? From focusing on your environment to ‘washing’ your brain, experts share tips on how to sharpen up and keep your mind fighting fit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doomscrolling has taken over our screen time, and neuroscience shows it’s harming the brain. But Gen Z is working to take back ...

The mechanisms that keep you mindlessly scrolling may be similar to those behind addictions such as drug and alcohol use or gambling The mechanisms that keep you mindlessly scrolling may be similar to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you are parenting in 2025 and your kid owns a device, you might recognize this real-life convo as just ...

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You grab your phone and in that first swipe, you see someone traveling the world. Why aren’t you on vacation? Swipe again, and someone is living off the grid. Wow, shouldn’t you get rid of your laptop ...