Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Thirty-five plus years into this work in the trenches with families and I am still amazed at the lengths fierce and feisty kids will go to, how persistent and clever they can be, in pursuing their ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Michael Noetel has received funding from the Australian Research Council, the Medical Research Future Fund, Sport Australia, Open Philanthropy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the National ...

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson is working on a legal response after a federal official appointed by President Donald Trump demanded the state’s child welfare agency stop requiring prospective foster and ...

In the United States, 12% of married couples with at least one spouse in their 30s or 40s have two incomes and no kids, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of federal data. This group, often ...

A mom from the southeast of England in the U.K. couldn’t wait to frame the first school picture of her two kids, until she saw the final photo. Paige Higgins (@paige_higginsx) was eagerly awaiting to ...

What if the tools we’ve created to shape the future are quietly slipping beyond our control? Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic and a prominent voice in artificial intelligence (AI), has sounded an ...

As you’d expect, anything serious and negative about AI isn’t getting a lot of traction in mainstream coverage. The cash cow of all cash cows is pretty safe from criticism. Until about now. AI chatbot ...

Landlines from companies like Tin Can allow kids to chat with their friends without all the distracting apps and pings of a smartphone. (Photo illustration: Nathalie Cruz/Yahoo News; photo: Courtesy ...

What’s happened? Spotify just made its app safer for young listeners by expanding a feature called ‘managed accounts.’ The premium family plan now allows parents to control what their kids listen to, ...

It’s a scene most parents know well: a toddler kicking the seat in front of them, a preschooler melting down in the aisle, or a parent frantically queuing up an iPad while flight attendants exchange ...