Sometimes your eyes are completely convinced they know what they are seeing, only for reality to prove otherwise. These clips show people mistaking shadows for real objects, getting fooled by shapes ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved ...

Mary Beth Barone’s Galaxy Brain exposes mainstream comedy’s persistent misogyny … but feminist comedians have always created stages, traditions and audiences beyond the industry’s narrow field of ...

An MRI study detects a drop in activity in regions associated with self-control when we watch the videos we like best. TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts are competing for something far more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That vacant "Gen Z stare" maynot be entirely a theatrical response to being asked whether anybody works here. A new neurological ...

That vacant “Gen Z stare” may not be entirely a theatrical response to being asked whether anybody works here. A new neurological study found that preferred short videos significantly deactivated two ...

Short videos have become one of the leading sources of information and entertainment for internet users worldwide. Reflecting the scale of this trend, TikTok alone had an estimated 2 billion active ...

The frontier of physical AI is a Jenga game in a warehouse in San Leandro, California. That warehouse is occupied by Encord, a company that builds data tooling used to train AI models. Andrew Ceja is ...

Scroll through TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts and something measurable happens inside your skull. A new peer-reviewed study published Tuesday in NeuroImage finds that watching videos you ...

There’s nothing quite like wholesomeness and cuteness to remind you that, yes, the internet can be a happy place. Adorable and humorous animal content is the perfect antidote to all the stress, ...

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards annually showcases hilarious wildlife photos and videos, aiming to raise conservation awareness through humor. The competition highlights animals' natural ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and ...