Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Someone asked “What is a genetics fact that not a lot of people know?” and people detailed their best bits of info.

In 2025, new data show, the volume of child pornography online was likely larger than at any other point in history. A record ...

Recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology found that when 5-year-old prereaders practiced writing by hand, they significantly outperformed children who typed the same ...

A wave of AI-powered children’s toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids.

"This world is like bananas, and so I think you've got to be locked in even more now because the access is so high," she said. The singer also described herself as a "partial" helicopter mom who likes ...

For generations of women, the logic has seemed airtight: Focus on a career in your 20s, and worry about starting a family once you are established in a job. This mindset has catapulted women into ...

Kids get candy outside of Merchants Pub and Plate during the downtown Lawrence trick-or-treat on Friday, Oct. 31. 2025. Downtown Lawrence’s annual trick-or-treating event was on Friday night, and all ...

Slimy and slow, snails may not be the most glamorous of creatures. Yet they are starring in their own exhibit at the Western Science Center in Hemet. Called “Life in the Slow Lane,” it spotlights the ...

Milwaukee is facing a significant reading crisis affecting the majority of its students. Milwaukee education and civic leaders have formed a new coalition to unite various school sectors on this issue ...

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