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By The Artful Age Editorial Team · Sep 21, 2026

For the fourth year in a row, UC Berkeley undergraduate alumni have founded more venture-backed companies than…

Sep 21 On 25 February 2025, engineers at JPL switched off Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem, and on 24 March they shut down… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 17 Preschoolers solve mental rotation puzzles using the same holistic strategy as adults, FIU eye-tracking research found The Artful Age Editorial Team
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 15 The apology I owe my children is not for working Rachel Santos
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 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 Across 11 Western countries, time-use diaries put the average mother's child care at a predicted 54 minutes a day in… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Eighty-five preschoolers were handed the same toy with four hidden functions, and the ones whose adult said "I'm going… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 In a panel of 1,911 young adults, moving in with a partner or getting married went with seeing your parents less often… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 Fifty toddlers played with toys for an hour while a game show ran in the background, and although they glanced at the… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 The temperament typology that gave us the phrase easy child was revised this year using 1,260 adults, and only 13… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 Two studies on different continents found that the quality of a grandparent relationship predicted how grandchildren… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 Across 2.7 million posts, each individual term referring to the political out-group raised the odds of a share by 67… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 Asked why they were estranged, 546 parents and 352 adult children gave systematically different answers The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 In a German longitudinal study, entering an empty nest was not associated with adjusted changes in parents' loneliness… The Artful Age Editorial Team