When children use AI to help with schoolwork, the productivity boost is often immediate and visible. The cost is delayed and ...

Spread by parasitic worms that can infect via a splash of water, schistosomiasis causes debilitating symptoms. It hits kids ...

It is the bottom of the third inning, and I am on my phone. My boys play travel baseball, and I have spent about 4,000 hours on the bleachers watching nothing happen for long stretches. I have also, ...

One of the things I hear most often from parents in Croydon is that childhood feels different today. Not because children have changed, but because the world around them has. For previous generations, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Image: Natasha Irons MP) One of the things I hear most often from parents in Croydon is that childhood feels different today. Not ...

Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...

Maka Kids has raised $3 million in seed funding to expand a children’s streaming platform designed around developmental research rather than engagement metrics, as the startup positions itself as an ...

Children’s safety online has been an issue of interest for lawmakers in Springfield this year, with dozens of bills introduced aiming to address issues of social media addiction, age-appropriate ...

(The Center Square) – Children’s safety online has been an issue of interest for lawmakers in Springfield this year, with dozens of bills introduced aiming to address issues of social media addiction, ...

The Illinois House voted on bipartisan lines to pass the Children’s Social Media Safety Act. The bill is designed to limit children’s access to social media algorithms that the courts have ruled and ...

Faculty Associate Leah Plunkett argues that the spread of "brain rot" - a species of nonsensical, repetitive, and often overstimulating online content geared toward young users - is being accelerated ...