Recently, a scientific research study was published in a reputable medical journal showing that multitasking can be a significant challenge. When people talk about multitasking, they usually focus on ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Men may be helping more in the home but working women still do more multitasking in U.S. families than their partners and are finding it stressful, according to a new study.

Working mothers spend significantly more time multitasking when they are at home than their counterparts, working dads. That's according to a new study published in this month's journal The American ...

Most of us find multitasking appealing. And media multitasking—reading a book while watching TV—is irresistible, even when the results are less than optimal. Most people aren’t good multitaskers. (See ...

The amount of time clinicians spend multitasking while using EHRs exceeds the amount of time clinicians are silent while using EHRs, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows. The study ...

Researchers at Stanford University reported that the study of college students was surprising even to them, according to Reuters. "They're terrible at multitasking," said Stanford's Dr. Clifford Nass.

Here’s a win for the chronic multitaskers. The best way to accomplish boring tasks is to do them in tandem with other low-attention tasks, according to a new study published in the Journal of Consumer ...

Got your notes organised, your laptop and maybe even a cup of coffee but hours later, you realise that you barely remember anything you studied? If this sounds familiar, know that the problem is not ...

From checking emails while on a call to cooking dinner and helping with homework, we all operate through multitasking. But new research suggests that our ability to juggle multiple tasks isn't a ...

The seductive lure of cars that drive themselves has led to an awful lot of hype over the past decade. Not everyone enjoys driving, after all, and the idea of freeing up the occupant to read their ...