New research shows that ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is linked to higher creativity, and that this ...

In 2019, a Chinese sci-fi movie was released during the lucrative Lunar New Year period. Its premise: a team of astronauts and rescue workers have to move Earth away from an expanding Sun while ...

We’ve all been there. You’re slouched in a meeting or a classroom, supposedly paying attention, but your mind has long since wandered off, churning out lists of all the things you need to do—or that ...

The Wandering Earth, a Chinese sci-fi film that quietly appeared on Netflix, is based on a short story by Liu Cixin, the country’s most popular sci-fi author. The film has achieved extraordinary ...

Researchers believe that when a task isn’t sufficiently rewarding, our brains search for something more interesting to think about. You have a big deadline looming, and it’s time to hunker down. But ...

AJ has been a game writer for two years, but his love for gaming goes way back. It all started when his cousin introduced him to Starcraft, Final Fantasy, and Counter-Strike in a single weekend. It's ...

When psychologist Jonathan Smallwood set out to study mind-wandering about 25 years ago, few of his peers thought that was a very good idea. How could one hope to investigate these spontaneous and ...

Most research looking at mind wandering has assumed that all mind wandering is inherently unintentional, but findings from a new study suggest otherwise: People frequently report zoning out on purpose ...

More than one in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older by the year 2030, according to the latest U.S. census, and by 2060 the number of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease will double to 13.8 ...

Mind wandering is a spontaneous shifting of attention of thoughts from a primary task that can happen in varying degrees. It is an unintentional and unrelated shift that occurs where the mind tends to ...