A new study that analyzed 9,855 American children first at ages 9-10, and then again two years later, has unusually taken great pains to account for both genetic differences in intelligence as well as ...

It might finally be time to set those parental controls. New research suggests that social media isn’t just feeding your kid the latest memes — it may actually be messing with their brainpower. The ...

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Problematic smartphone use (PSU) has substantially increased in the last seven years, negatively impacting children's overall quality of life, although the proportion of children with clinical-level ...

Ah, screens. The thing kids won't put down, and parents can't stop worrying about. But a new study suggests they may not be all bad after all. Researchers at the University of South Australia analyzed ...

There may be a link between social media use during early adolescence and lower cognitive performance, a new study suggests. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or ...

Nobody’s perfect. But a massive new study out of Japan just gave us more reason to think about the examples we give our kids and whether all that extra screen time costs them more than we realize.