There have been cases of children allegedly taking their own lives after chatbot interactions, growing dependence on AI ...

Teen use of AI chat bots is growing, and psychologists worry it's affecting their social development and mental health.

Individualized learning has its place. But decades of educational research is also clear that learning is a social endeavor at its core. Classrooms that privilege personalized AI chatbots overlook ...

Young children really struggle in the heat. Their bodies are too small to cool down by sweating, like adults. And they're wholly reliant on grown-ups to find any kind of relief, be it air conditioning ...

A new study shows that giving a child a smartphone too early could have health impacts. The study was published by The Journal of Pediatrics on Monday. It found that children who had a smartphone by ...

A strong geomagnetic storm in spring 2024 brought the northern lights unusually far south, as the auroral oval expanded well beyond its typical position. "I am surprised at how sparse the measurement ...

Annie is a policy analyst for the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation. When 95 percent of teens have a smartphone, online porn is at their fingertips. Children ...

Valentina Fantasia receives funding from The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS). She is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive ...

What we don't know is exactly how it impacts how children and parents relate to each other. Our group, SITE, at the Robotic lab at Lund University, is currently investigating how children understand ...

Most parents know the feeling—that quick flash of panic when a child falls, bumps a table, or wakes up with a bruise you don’t remember seeing the day before. For many families, it’s a passing worry.

A coalition of leading child-development specialists and technology-safety advocates is urging parents not to purchase AI-powered toys this holiday season, warning that the devices can undermine ...

This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. EUGENE — On a rainy mid-November afternoon, the only sound coming from vacant building lots clustered ...