Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

What began as a viral comedy sketch has now spiraled into a full-blown cultural and political flashpoint. The conversation ...

Pete Docter's comments about cutting a gay "Elio" storyline are only part of the company's up-and-down history with LGBTQ representation and censorship. According to the WSJ, this cut storyline ...

After Netflix on Thursday revealed its acquisition of Ben Affleck’s AI company InterPositive, an obvious question followed. Why did the actor and Oscar-winning filmmaker stealthily start exploring the ...

Aldis Hodge, Isaiah Mustafa, creator/showrunner Ben Watkins and author James Patterson explain how the new season of the Prime Video detective series also connects storylines from the past. By ...

A butterfly flaps its wings and weeks later a tornado touches down halfway around the world. Mathematician Edward Lorenz used the butterfly effect to explain chaos theory in the 1960s. Now, decades ...

The US version of TikTok is now under the control of Larry Ellison’s Oracle and a number of investment firms. The US version of TikTok is now under the control of Larry Ellison’s Oracle and a number ...

Social media algorithms determine what billions of users see daily, yet most creators barely scratch the surface of how they operate. Platforms prioritize content ranking using engagement metrics, ...

Ahead of a new episode of The Pitt, some of the stars from Season 2 are unpacking the “nightmare” scene from the second episode. Many fans were quick to recognize Christopher T. Wood in The Pitt ...

Netflix would like you to know that Adolescence has been watched for more than 555 million hours this year, a number so large it feels almost impossible to quantify. (You don’t rack up a figure like ...