In a typical office environment, workers are interrupted approximately every three minutes by digital notifications, colleague requests, or their own wandering minds. Research from the University of ...

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In today's fast-paced world, distractions are everywhere. From constant notifications to long working hours, our brains rarely get a break. Many people complain about poor memory, low concentration, ...

Screens vie for our attention everywhere now, and many of us struggle to keep our minds focused on one task at a time. Research shows that media multitasking, like texting while watching video shorts, ...

You sit down to answer one email, but before you can finish, a text arrives, a coworker swings by and you then somehow end up watching a video you never even intended to open. By the time you return ...

We are often entertained and spend a high proportion of time on digital social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter(X), and Snapchat, which inform and entertain us with short-form ...

The secret to sharper concentration might already be in your kitchen, as these six foods work behind the scenes to enhance cognitive function and mental clarity. In our increasingly distracted world, ...

David Adam is a science journalist based near London. A century before social-media bans and advice to disable device notifications, the inventor and science-fiction writer Hugo Gernsback proposed a ...

Studies show that the average attention span is now only eight seconds. That's about as much time as it takes to read a few sentences before being distracted. A new national survey of 1,000 American ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The idea that attention spans can "break" has been spreading like ...

Ohio's six-month freeze on new Medicaid home care and hospice providers is set to expire Nov. 14, raising concerns among disabled residents who face gaps when aides leave. South Dakota voters will ...