How to stop checking your phone at work (2026 Pew data)
Half of American adults feel the same pull, and the experiments suggest a better setup helps where willpower runs out.
Notes on screens, sleep and focus
What new research says about phones and attention, written up plainly. Every number links to where it came from. RSS
Phones
Sleep
Social media and sleep in college students: 4 new studies
Your feed may be costing you sleep in ways you won't notice, and a midnight phone curfew may not be the fix.
Habits
How to stop short video addiction: lessons from 3,857 students
The research on students who can't stop scrolling points less at willpower and more at loneliness and stress, which changes what tends to work.
Focus
Do short videos affect memory? What new studies show
Ten minutes of clips taught students less than ten minutes of one video, and trying harder didn't fix it.
Parenting
Screen time for 1 year olds: what a 10-year study found
Age 1 had the clearest link to school results years later, but the effect is small, and that makes it easier to act on.
Research
Does doomscrolling cause anxiety? What 44 studies found
The first big pooled analysis found a clear link and rated its own certainty very low, which tells you more than any scare headline.
Sleep
What time should teens stop using their phone? Try 10 p.m.
A new study compared each teen with their own usual nights and found that late phone use went with later sleep, which finally gives parents a specific cutoff to point to.
News
Instagram 2 hour limit for teens: what changes and when
Meta agreed to cap teen scrolling by default, but most of it won't arrive until 2027 and messages don't count toward the limit.
Research
Is passive scrolling bad for you? What two new studies found
Your screen time total might be the least useful number on your phone, and the per-app breakdown underneath it tells you more.