Two-hundred billion views: that’s how many times people watched short-form videos on YouTube last year. They are always under ...

Short-form videos like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts are everywhere. They're reshaping entertainment but ...

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 ...

Today, short-form content is everywhere, even on Netflix. While they are running as a constant background noise in most ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...