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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 ...

Click-bait and other attention-grabbing online content can cause brain rot in large language models, a new study finds. Brain rot isn’t just for humans anymore. The thoroughly modern affliction also ...

"Ballerina cappucccina" is not the latest trend in fancy lattes. Instead, it's a dainty ballerina with a giant coffee mug for a head, a character from a popular TikTok meme in the category of ...

Imagine a time traveler from the quaint, analog world of the 1990s arriving in 2025. They wouldn’t just be shocked by our technology; they’d be utterly baffled by our behavior. The subtle, pervasive ...

This is the seventh installment in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. In a matter of weeks, “6 7” has transformed from two sequential numbers to a phrase so ...