Brain Rot is a weird trend among younger generations where they make very weirdly edited images and videos that often make no sense. One TikToker printed off his favorites and took them to a store ...

I was recently sitting with my friend’s 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV. I’d wanted to get a kid’s perspective on “brain rot,” Oxford University Press’ 2024 word of ...

"Brain rot" refers to mindless, often absurd online content popular with kids and tweens, especially on TikTok and Roblox. A viral subgenre called "Italian brain rot" features surreal AI characters ...

The TikTokification of social media has created a landscape that caters to shorter videos, which is likely having a profound effect on the attention spans of some of our most impressionable ...

Many of us have gotten into the habit of listening to podcasts, audiobooks and other online content at increased playback speeds. For younger people, it might even be the norm. One survey of students ...

These days, almost everything is available in the form of quick, bite-sized content—from recipes and skincare tips to news updates. You may find yourself swiping through reels, tapping through stories ...

Other studies have shown that napping between 30 and 90 minutes can help with cognitive tasks such as word recall and figure ...

If you and your best friend love laughing at the same sitcoms or tearing up during the same documentaries, science says that’s no coincidence. A new study has found that people whose brains react in ...

There are a lot of videos in the “satisfying video” genre of internet content. There are pimple-popping videos and even videos of cow hoof-trimming. And then there’s a whole slew of ASMR videos, which ...

WASHINGTON — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire ...