Why you cannot stop scrolling on your phone is rooted in deliberate design choices like infinite scroll and powerful ...

"Doom scrolling is all about passively consuming negative content online and this often occurs when young people go online when they’re already feeling down," explains Dr Rebecca Nowland, senior ...

The term doomscrolling first emerged in 2020, at the height of lockdown, when the world seemed to be on pause but the internet never stopped talking. The word quickly made its way into the Oxford ...

If you’re lying in bed right now, scrolling endlessly through your phone, it might be costing you tomorrow’s energy. Several studies have already flagged that late-night screen time can suppress ...