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Childhood & Growing Up
The emotional, imaginative, and developmental side of childhood, from early creativity to the years when kids begin becoming themselves.
By The Artful Age Editorial Team · Sep 17, 2026
Preschoolers solve mental rotation puzzles using the same holistic strategy as adults, FIU eye-tracking research found
- Sep 17, 2026 A 2017 University of Toledo study gave toddlers either sixteen toys or four in a play session, and the children with… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 16, 2026 Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, awarded the 1903 Physics prize with Pierre and Henri Becquerel… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 15, 2026 Drexel researchers tracked 1,471 American babies and found those exposed to more television by their second birthday… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 14, 2026 Peggy LeMone started wondering how much a cloud weighs when a friend's dad asked her in junior high, and decades later… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 14, 2026 Before it went national, Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was tested on 7,500 Pittsburgh schoolchildren, and Salk himself… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 12, 2026 In a randomized trial of 124 anxious children aged 7 to 14, treating only the parents by reducing how much they… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 11, 2026 Melbourne firm Luyten has turned an ordinary tower crane into a concrete 3D printer that can build structures up to 100… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 11, 2026 Birds have long woven fishing line, plastic bags and electrical wire into their nests, but researchers studying nests… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 11, 2026 Marine biologists spent decades wondering how identical limpets end up at hydrothermal vents thousands of kilometres… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 10, 2026 Fleming came back from the First World War focused on the problem of infection, and he spent the next decade studying… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 10, 2026 Quote by Anne Lamott: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 8, 2026 The Tunguska blast in 1908 knocked down tens of millions of trees in a radial pattern larger than Greater London, and… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 7, 2026 Lake Nyos in Cameroon sits inside a 210-metre-deep volcanic crater at 1,091 metres altitude, and for decades carbon… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 7, 2026 Archaeologists long assumed prehistoric people only passed briefly through the Pyrenees above 2,000 metres, but a cave… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 7, 2026 Biologists have catalogued thousands of parasites, but only one is known to functionally replace an organ of its host By The Artful Age Editorial Team