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Focus & Digital Wellbeing How the Phone Rewires What You Notice A new experiment moves past screen-time counts to how high smartphone use bends what you can and cannot see. 24 October 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Benchmark for Childhood A new benchmark measures how AI models treat children. Why what we measure shapes what gets built. 23 October 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Body Keeps the Scroll A new review traces how problematic phone use in kids may reach all the way to metabolic health. 17 October 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Attention That Precedes the Scroll Two new studies move past screen-time counts to look at how heavy use reshapes attention and near vision. 16 October 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing Who the Tools Are For We keep asking how to use our devices less. A harder question: what are they built to serve? 25 September 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing When the Signal Is Sleep Timing beats total screen time. Why bedtime scrolling and addiction-like patterns predict poor sleep more than hours logged. 18 September 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Caregivers Nobody Studied A new study of caregivers in Nepal reframes smartphone overuse as a symptom of chronic stress, not a character flaw. 11 September 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Word We Never Defined A new scoping review argues we keep measuring the parts of digital wellbeing without ever naming the whole. Why that matters. 4 September 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing What Gets Measured, Gets Built AI is optimized for what it can do. A new program asks what it does to us. The case for humane evals. 28 August 20266 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Effect Size Nobody Reports A new meta-analysis tries to compare therapies for problematic digital use across very different behaviors. 21 August 20266 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Distress Behind the Distraction Smartphone overuse may be a pathway to psychological distress, not just a bad habit. What the newest evidence shows. 14 August 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing Whose Life Is the Technology For? A different question about attention: not how to use less, but what the tools are designed to serve. 7 August 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Anxiety Underneath the Habit Procrastination sits between fear of missing out and smartphone addiction. That changes where you intervene. 31 July 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing What Actually Fixes a Fractured Attention The evidence on whether therapy for problematic digital use actually works, and what the trials don't yet tell us. 24 July 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing What the Screen Takes When You Sleep New reviews suggest timing and dependence, not total screen time, matter most for sleep and mood. 17 July 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing When the Screen Won't Let You Rest The evidence on bedtime scrolling, smartphone addiction, and what treatment can and can't do. 10 July 20266 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Pathway, Not the Screen Time The problem isn't total screen time. It's the timing, the pattern, and the anxiety underneath it. 3 July 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing When the Problem Isn't Screen Time New research suggests the timing and pattern of use matters more than the raw hours. What that changes. 26 June 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing It Was Never About the Screen Time New research suggests total screen time matters less than how and when you use the device. Plus three findings worth your attention. 12 June 20267 min read Focus & Digital Wellbeing The Attention Trap: What Science Says About Reclaiming Your Focus New research on digital wellbeing, therapeutic interventions, and the design patterns keeping you hooked. 5 June 20268 min read