If you watch your kids or take note of yourself when you’re in social media feeds, everybody’s always scrolling through content. Now, think back 20 years to how you scrolled through the television ...

My morning routine goes something like this. Every weekday, I wake up to the sound of one of Apple’s default alarms and reach ...

Have you been "doom scrolling" lately? Or is it the first time you heard about it? It turns out it's something we've all probably been doing lately. Doom scrolling, aka zombie scrolling, is a ...

A new addiction is on the rise. Many call doomscrolling a way to kill time, but it’s really an addiction. Like many addictions that have consequences, doomscrolling creates mental and physical health ...

Oxford University Press has chosen "brain rot" as its word of the year. The word is defined as "supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of ...

Constantly find yourself doomscrolling on social media? You may just be doing so out of habit, not addiction. That’s according to research conducted on 1,204 US adults, which found excessive social ...

We’ve all been there: fiddling with your smartphone because it’s there, or reaching for it when you hear a text message notification. Austrian designer Klemens Schillinger created the Substitute Phone ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...