A new study has revealed that hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player’s hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input.
An analysis of the habits of up to 200 teenagers, aged between 12 and 18, found that when typical after-school activities were ranked, Facebook ranked ninth, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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.
Children’s understanding of owning a body differs from that of adults, indicating that our sense of physical self develops over time, according to a new study.
Mums are bombarded with around 300 questions from their children on a daily basis, a new study has revealed.
Students learn better when their teachers use hand gestures -- a simple teaching tool that could yield benefits in higher-level math such as algebra -- according to a new study.
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.
More than two-thirds of parents feel that their kids childhood ends before they become teenagers, a new survey has revealed.
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.
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...
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...
Sedentary children are more prone to stress than their active peers, according to a recent study.
Here’s all the fun and action from Crossroads, the annual cultural fest of Sri Ram College of Commerce