Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments.

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.

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

Researchers adapted the playbook for studying young children to stage a juice party for Kanzi. They poured imaginary juice from a pitcher into two cups, then pretended to empty just one. They asked ...

Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party ...

Jeffrey Epstein was asked by new age guru Deepak Chopra to fund eerie paranormal research straight out of a SciFi movie — ...

In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.

An experiment on labeling children's products in consumer packaging is underway in Russia from January 12 to October 31. This was reported by Rospotrebnadzor. In the summer of 2025, during a meeting ...

Apanama is back: The issue with the six-year-old admission in Year One is that it is an option. That is why MPs such as Hishammuddin Hussein and Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman are raising concerns ...

When answers arrive preformed, that developmental pressure disappears. Children still learn, but they may be learning something different.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon convert an entire generation of U.S. children, especially children in foster care, into guinea pigs. Here is how: Commissioner Marty Makary recently ...

In a single stroke, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. achieved a long-standing goal of his anti-vaccine supporters — and put millions of American children needlessly at risk. On Jan. 5, the ...