AI tools may better protect children online by detecting harmful content without the privacy risks of strict age verification laws.

A new study claims an IQ decline in Gen Z, sparking debate. Experts discuss causes like screen time, while others point to a ...

A leading teachers’ union has called for artificial football pitches to be banned over fears the rubber material in them is causing cancer. NASUWT said teachers and children are being exposed to ...

The UK government has stopped sponsored study visas for nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan due to a sharp ...

Screen time has long been a concern for parents, child safety advocates and others, particularly in the early years when a ...

Tech firms accused of designing systems that can expose young people to ‘deeply harmful’ as campaigners call for under-16s social media ban ...

A new study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute finds that mental health care gaps for U.S. children remain stark: one in five households reported a child needing treatment, yet nearly a ...

How do children learn to cooperate with others? A new cross-cultural study suggests that the answer depends less on universal rules and more on the social norms surrounding the child. In the study, ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, and approximately half develop more complex language, according to a new ...

The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal ...

Researchers from UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison are studying the link between air pollution and asthma-related school nurse visits at MPS. They'll use satellite data to estimate nitrogen dioxide levels ...