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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 We tend to picture Earth's core as a solid ball of iron, but laboratory experiments squeezing molten iron, silicon and… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 17 A 2017 University of Toledo study gave toddlers either sixteen toys or four in a play session, and the children with… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 16 Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, awarded the 1903 Physics prize with Pierre and Henri Becquerel… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 15 The apology I owe my children is not for working Rachel Santos
Sep 15 Across more than 10,000 secrets held by over 800 people, confiding one to somebody did not predict concealing it any… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 15 A 2025 systematic review found the evidence for performing better at your best time of day is shaky in young adults… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 15 Researchers coded 219 CCTV clips of real public conflicts in three countries and found not only that at least one… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 15 Drexel researchers tracked 1,471 American babies and found those exposed to more television by their second birthday… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 15 Fourteen replication attempts and a meta-analysis of 39 effect sizes left the famous claim about multitaskers'… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 15 Across Britain, India and 109 countries, life satisfaction tracked where a person's income ranked rather than what it… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 15 Asked to imagine an argument, 83.9 percent chose to have it in writing The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 15 We say travel broadens the mind. In the studies that separated the two, it was living abroad that predicted creativity… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 15 A housing lottery randomly offered 4,498 families a way out of high-poverty neighborhoods The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Peggy LeMone started wondering how much a cloud weighs when a friend's dad asked her in junior high, and decades later… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 The last time NASA delivered an instrument to Mars designed specifically to detect living microbes was in 1976 The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Before it went national, Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was tested on 7,500 Pittsburgh schoolchildren, and Salk himself… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 If your social circle has shrunk as you’ve grown older, research suggests it could affect far more than your happiness Jeanette Brown
Sep 14 Shown moving three-dimensional faces that differed only in the eyes, 48 five-year-olds judged the faces with white… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Sent into the street with a fixed script and told to keep asking until five strangers agreed to fill in a… The Artful Age Editorial Team