We live in the most technologically advanced era in human history, yet our ability to pay attention is quietly collapsing. Children today swipe before they speak. Teenagers toggle between screens, ...

Smartphone distractions can be dangerous while driving. That's why both Apple and Google have come up with features for iPhone and Android to manage communication (texting and calling), navigation, ...

Starting the year with a broken brain? We asked experts how you can get your focus back. By Simar Bajaj It’s no wonder our attention spans are shrinking. When we’re engaged with the world in front of ...

If you’re someone who struggles to stay on task or simply want to boost your productivity as the new year approaches, there are several apps and extensions you can try that are designed to help you ...

Pain was long treated as something to silence rather than understand. Amy Baxter explained that pain didn’t live in the body, but emerged from the brain after signals passed through fear, expectation, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I wanted to say something about video games, because a lot of adults act like they’re nothing but a ...

Abstract: Driver distraction is one of the main causes of traffic accidents. While there are different types of distraction (manual, visual, cognitive), cognitive distraction is particularly ...

Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute found that rotating waves of brain activity help restore focus after distractions. In animal tests, these rotations predicted performance: full rotations meant ...

This simplified version of a figure from the research shows the rotation of subspace coding from many trials with correct vs. error respoonses. The blue arrow ...

Hitman: World of Assassination is arguably the best way to play the current Hitman series. On paper, it's a very serious franchise about very serious international spy agencies playing very serious ...