Beyond Books

Kolkata-born Ritankar Das, a bioengineering and chemical biology double major at the University of California at Berkeley, has become the youngest student to receive the University Medal in more than a century.

Series of workshops in the city let children enact scenes from Harry Potter or The Jungle Book

There’s plenty for your kids to do this holiday season. Here’s a round-up of the best vacation workshops on offer in the city.

Playing action video games for hours can actually make dyslexic children read better, according to a new study.

Sedentary children are more prone to stress than their active peers, according to a recent study.

Children with top maths skills at the age of 10 will go on to earn considerably more as adults than classmates who are just average in the subject, new research suggests. A pupil who scores highly in the subject can...

Children who avoid scary situations are likely to have anxiety disorders, a new study has found. The questionnaires ask details about children’s avoidance tendencies, for instance...

American researchers say that teens who were depressed as children are far more likely than their peers to be obese, smoke cigarettes and lead sedentary lives, even if they no longer suffer from the condition.

More than two-thirds of parents feel that their kids childhood ends before they become teenagers, a new survey has revealed.

The reason kids fear trying out new food has less to do with what’s on their plate and more to do with their genes, a study has revealed.