Today's teens and tweens are constantly connecting -- to TV, computers, smartphones and tablets. Kids between 8 and 12 report spending an average of 4.5 hours a day in front of a screen, while ...

The area of the brain involved in multitasking and ways to train it have been identified by a research team. The research includes a model to better predict the effectiveness of this training. The ...

Typically speaking, multitasking makes you worse at everything. There’s plenty of scientific research to back this up and you probably have your own anecdotal evidence to support it. But sometimes, ...

Multitasking is generally a productivity-killer, but there are times every day when doing more than one thing at a time can make your life richer. We all know that multitasking is a bad idea.

The news that multitasking is bad isn’t even news anymore. In recent years, people have begun to recognize what psychologists have known for decades: If you try to do two things at the same time, ...

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Many people believe themselves to be multitasking masters, but could it all be in their heads? Our brains weren’t built to multitask. Our brains are designed to focus on one thing at a time, and ...

In an early-January interview with NPR, now Vice President Kamala Harris addressed how the new Biden administration planed to juggle its numerous priorities as they got underway. "We know how to ...

Scientists have discovered that octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they more often use their front arms for tasks.