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Many of us remember growing up with questionable toys that would not make it onto the shelves today – whether they would not be deemed appropriate for kids today or contained potentially harmful ...

Lego (or Meccano, or any similar construction toy) can be an equally powerful metaphor for other ideas, scientific and otherwise, leading the way to other journeys. Modular reusability has always been ...

Thanks to a growing understanding of the cognitive benefits of certain toys, we now have a better idea about the relative merits of different ones. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

The team was inspired by the "drinking bird", the classic scientific toy with a top hat that continuously dips into a glass ...

Thanks to a boost from Sputnik and Muttnik, 1957 is the year of the “scientific” toy. As the buying season opened this week, retailers displayed an array of ingenious, intricate and fiendishly ...

A recent study published in the journal Chemosphere raised concerns about food safety, warning that black plastic kitchen ...

Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais inaugurated the 50th National Children's Science Exhibition at Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi on Tuesday and noted that the event, with participation ...