It's been four months since Australia banned under-16s from using social media, and ever since, a growing number of countries ...

VESTAL, N.Y. (WBNG) -- Students at Binghamton University say the volume of negative content on social media apps is prompting them to step back from their accounts, citing effects on their mood, sleep ...

It’s called the infinite scroll – a design feature on social media, shopping, video and many other apps that continuously loads content as you reach the bottom of the page. Handy? Yes. Clever? Also ...

Group therapy sessions are dramatized in this absorbing film from the writer-director Alexis Lloyd. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

In the new book The Practice of Attention: Cultivating Presence in a Distracted World, Cody Cook-Parrott says it’s no longer realistic to think we can win back our focus through screentime limits or ...

Electrons are influenced by a magnetic field display known as the quantum Hall effect (QHE), which helps scientists make hyper-accurate measurements. Now, scientists have observed a similar behavior ...

The effect was first described by Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik in 1927. She was inspired to study the phenomenon after her professor, prominent psychologist Kurt Lewin, noticed that a waiter ...

Is your memory playing tricks on you? The Mandela effect refers to the experience of a false memory that many people share. In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that ...

Dr. Abeni El-Amin and Terry Dumphord are the co-hosts and executive producers of the Ricochet Effect Podcast. The objective of the podcast is to focus on community issues and to improve the social ...

Nasha is a Managing Editor for CNET, overseeing our sleep and wellness verticals. She is a nutrition, mental health, fitness and sleep science enthusiast. Her passion for mindful and holistic ...

Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work? It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social ...