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Gen Z goes retro: Why the younger generation is ditching smartphones...

Omar H. Fares, Toronto Metropolitan University https://narrations.ad-auris.com/widget/the-conversation-canada/gen-z-goes-retro--why-the-younger-generation-is-ditching-smartphones-for--dumb-phones- There is a growing movement among Gen Z to do away with...

Why Apple can hold the line on iPhone prices, as smartphones...

Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University Inflation in the U.S. is surging to near a 40-year high, with prices on...

Gen Z smartphone addiction can boost compulsive buying – but businesses...

Nisreen Ameen, Royal Holloway University of London People born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s – so-called generation Z...

Consumer electronics have changed a lot in 20 years – systems...

Callie Babbitt, Rochester Institute of Technology and Shahana Althaf, Yale University It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile phone in hand. Computers,...

Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys

Jean Twenge, San Diego State University We’re in the middle of a teen mental health crisis – and girls are at its epicenter. Since 2010, depression,...

The bizarre social history of beds

Brian Fagan, University of California, Santa Barbara Groucho Marx once joked, “Anything that can’t be done in bed isn’t worth doing at all.” You might...

The mental health crisis among America’s youth is real – and...

Jean Twenge, San Diego State University The first signs of a problem started to emerge around 2014: More young people said they felt overwhelmed and...

Worry over kids’ excessive smartphone use is more justified than ever...

Jean Twenge, San Diego State University Parents who fear their kids are spending too much time in front of screens now have more reason for...

EXPLORING NATURE

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma