By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a ...

Research shows that exposing kids to STEM early has big benefits later in life.

Growing up in the 70s meant Saturday morning cartoons, metal playground equipment that could give you third-degree burns, and ...

Millions of children have grown up watching PBS Kids’ educational TV, geared toward 2- to 8-year-olds—from classics like “Sesame Street” and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” to recently added shows like ...

The event featured Kate the Chemist, hands-on activities, animals from Potawatomi Zoo and more as kids engaged with science ...

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

Spring break is right around the corner, and the Discovery Lab in Tulsa is preparing to keep kids learning through its STEAM on Stage camps. The programs are designed for students from pre-K through ...

Settle in with us each week for in-depth conversations with people we think you should know on topics that help explain the world around us. How Lincoln would navigate today's politics “What would ...

In 2021, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history professor Thomas Haigh began teaching a course on the history of computers. Haigh, the coauthor of a book on the subject published around that same ...

Experts point to a lack of real-world exposure to STEM concepts and careers as a reason for that slide in interest. Several ...

Though Congress cut $500 million from NPR and PBS stations, vanishingly few have closed their doors. Angst about their long-term future remains. A recording studio at the KQED radio station in San ...

When summer comes, your kids will be more than ready to swim, create, innovate and just have fun. Summer camps offer the perfect place for kids to explore their interests, learn new things and make ...