I’d stumbled across the Pine Wizard Frog—a recurring character on the official TikTok account of household cleaning fluid ...

In 2024, the University of Oxford named “brain rot” as the word of the year.

Brain rot isn’t a scientific term. It has come to refer to content that might be funny nonsense. But it has evolved into a ...

"I wouldn't want anyone to go through what we went through. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy." Pet owners who have lost their dogs to Alabama rot are warning others about the disease, as 90% of ...

Thomas H. Ford does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

This is the seventh installment in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. In a matter of weeks, “6 7” has transformed from two sequential numbers to a phrase so ...

Wikipedia is one of those rare digital miracles that feels like it live up to the vast promise of the web: a vast online encyclopedia, written and maintained by millions of volunteers across the world ...

If you’ve spent any time around kids lately, you’ve probably heard about “brain rot.” Named Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, it’s defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or ...

Entertainment rules our world. We chuckle at the mindless, pointless “brain rot” videos like Ballerina Cappuccina and Tung Tung Tung Sahur and scroll to the next video without a second thought. After ...