New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Make Your Teenager MotivatedHow do you make your teenager motivated? Sounds impossible but science has some answers that can help. Here’s what you need to know...
The Truth About Parental Brainwashing – and Why Many of Us Are Guilty of ItWhy some parents insist on pushing their own ideologies onto their young children – whether it’s their sociopolitical stances or their taste in clothes.
Why “Nephew Therapy” Is My Favorite Kind of Self-CarePS editor Taylor Andrews explains why she loves “nephew therapy” — also known as the time spent with a nice, nephew, or nibling.
Mother Load: Microplastics and the New WildernessOne mother cannot speak for all mothers. Even though mothers are responsible for the existence of all people.
Soft spaces out, stick-fighting in: Dutch call for the return of risky playTen-year-old Jackie stood with a small pan in the flames of an open fire, chatting merrily, when her popcorn caught alight. With no sign of panic, her mother put out the flames in a nearby ditch. Then Jackie and her eight-year-old brother, Michael, calmly cooked a second batch.
I’ve seen all 96 Best Picture winners — here’s the 13 Oscar movies to watch firstThe 2025 Oscar nominations have been revealed and in a few weeks, one of 10 movies will join the illustrious ranks of Best Picture winners and become the 97 film to hold that honor.
The Verge’s favorite tech for babies and kidsOur staff talks about the tech that helps them be parents and that helps their kids be kids. Our staff talks about the tech that helps them be parents and that helps their kids be kids.
My Friend Behaved Like a Lecher at Our Wedding. Should We Tell His Wife?My wife and I got married recently. Unfortunately, a few of my high school friends came to the reception drunk. One of them — despite being married with children — spent the evening hitting on female guests.
25 New and Returning TV Shows You Should Add to Your 2025 WatchlistReal life is pretty mid at this point, so I'm committed to letting the soothing glow of the television (or tablet or phone) lull me into a state of peaceful euphoria.
The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic WorldInside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective unlike many of their peers. Introduction Many discoveries in physics flow from theory to experiment.
Google’s Gemini is already winning the next-gen assistant warsThis is probably a good thing. Bixby was never a very good virtual assistant — Samsung originally built it primarily as a way to more simply navigate device settings, not to get information from the internet.
Schvitzing at the Sauna like a SuckerAt first, I thought I was schvitzing in a sauna full of suckers.
Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distressI once saw an episode of America’s Dumbest Criminals where a man called the cops to report his car stolen, only for it to turn out he’d stolen it from someone else in the first place.
Kids Aren’t CommoditiesWhy do so many people talk about them that way? About 13 years ago, well before I became a parent, I had a conversation with my aunt. She was the kind of aunt a young person could talk to: hilariously frank, slow to judge, and not easily scandalized.