Emerging research suggests overusing digital devices can be harmful, especially to mental health. But does being overly online truly rot our brains?

If a kid in your life keeps chanting “Tralalero Tralala” or “Bombardiro Crocodilo,” you’ve been hit by Italian brain rot.

Most people understand at some level that brain rot isn't exactly good for their brains, but science can tell us exactly why ...

The term "brain rot" refers to how low-quality internet content may slow your brain function. It's usually tied to watching specific types of content, usually nonsensical, embarrassing, or weird. But ...

AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Both activities, it seems, are about checking out of whatever your reality is at the moment — and checking into the often good ...

There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen it as its word for the year for 2024. “Brain rot” took the title in a ...

The brain is a muscle, leaving it to rot is a choice. We can take proactive steps to counteract the risk of cognitive depletion, and the emotional drain that comes with it. Brain rot symbolizes the ...

I open my DMs to an Instagram gallery my younger sister sent me of the zodiac signs as different rats. "Lmao so me," I absentmindedly respond upon deeming my rat acceptable. Our conversations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman shows her TikTok feed outside the US Supreme Court after it ruled against the Chinese-owned app’s attempt to overturn a ...