New parents have plenty to fret about – sleeping, feeding, the colour of their newborn’s poo – but their baby’s microbiome probably isn’t high on the list. According to experts, it should be. “The ...

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An aspiring chemist goes to college, realizes she’s not good at chemistry, and bombs her dissertation. She takes a class in standup comedy and decides the best ...

Nicole Celic is a Bronx-born and raised librarian who plays more video games than she reads books. A lifelong gamer who dabbles in game development, she also teaches at the City University of New York ...

There are the parents who want to know what the “magic number” is to donate to guarantee admission. The moms who ask whether a friend-of-a-friend should put in a good word. The dads who call shortly ...

Thinking about science and technology in terms of return on investment misses the point. Here’s what kids really need to know. No lightsaber ever came to be, but I’ve been teaching undergraduates ...

Advertising is Roblox’s biggest profitability lever. Older users already make up most of Roblox’s daily active users, and retaining them as they spend more could dramatically improve monetization.

At a time when consensus feels like a relic of another era, one issue has managed to unite policymakers across the ideological spectrum: kids and smartphones. From the Netherlands to New Jersey, a ...

WHEN YOU WERE A KID, YOU MIGHT HAVE DREAMED OF OPERATING HEAVY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT LIKE A DUMP TRUCK OR AN EXCAVATOR. MAYBE A BULLDOZER. FOR MANY, THAT DREAM CONTINUES INTO ADULTHOOD, WHERE IT ...

It's finally fall, and with that also comes respiratory viruses. Dr. Michelle Morse, acting health commissioner and chief medical officer of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, ...

As a parent of newly minted third- and fifth-graders who has worked in children’s technology and media for 20 years, I’ve watched as the conversation around smart devices has become ubiquitous on the ...

Convincing kids to brush their teeth twice a day is an age-old problem. A new company is arguing that the solution might look a lot like Lego. Babsy is a toothbrush company founded by two pediatric ...