Phones – and how we use them – can be blamed for a lot of things: short attention spans, bad posture, loneliness, that weird bump in our pinky fingers... But researchers have now posited that the modern smartphone can be blamed for something far scarier for our futures: the dwindling birth rate.
When I first heard this, I protectively put my hand to my stomach: there’s long been a persistent theory that you can fry your eggs (and sperm) by using a mobile phone. This isn’t, thankfully, what scientists meant – it’s the solitude that scrolling gives rise to that could potentially be leading to a decline in procreation, rather than some kind of terrifying zapping.
