Kids who spend a lot of time outdoors not only tend to be healthier, they see better. That's the conclusion drawn from a recent Chinese study of kids in first-12th grades. Scientists followed a bevy of child...

The average American child gets about 12.4 percent of his or her daily caloric intake from fast food. On any given day, one out of every three kids will be eating at a fast-food joint. Experts consider tha...

Apple, the world's richest company, has more than $203 billion sitting in its cash reserves these days—enough green to fill 93 Olympic-sized swimming pools (if all the money was in dollar bills). (The Atl...

With no explanation, Intel, a maker of computer chips, has decided to end its sponsorship of the Science Talent Search after nearly 20 years. The Science Talent Search is one of the country's biggest, most i...

Colleges and universities have long been bastions of youthful hedonism: Many students are away from home and constant adult supervision for the first time; alcohol flows freely; and the hookup culture continual...

Grandma is good for more than baking cookies, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. As it turns out, teens who have close relationships with their grandparents tend to b...

College campuses are becoming increasingly sensitive to what are being called microaggressions and emotional triggers. At Harvard, there's been a push in its law department not to teach rape law or so much as u...

Want to know how to curtsy? How far to hold your pinky out from the cup while drinking tea? Debrett's has long taught Great Britain's etiquette-minded citizens everything they need to know about social gentil...

While the number of American students graduating from high school continues to tick up, fewer of them are ready for college. Scores for the SAT—the Scholastic Aptitude Test that many universities use i...

Millennials—young adults between the ages of 18 and 34—kinda hate themselves. Well, hate is probably a little misleading. But still, when Pew Research started asking Americans to define what trai...