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Letter from the editor When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began...
Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source. When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were...
Researchers are trying to figure out why kids lap AI at language acquisition. What they learn could pave the way for better models. People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time,...
Monitoring apps aim to keep teens and tweens safer online, but they threaten privacy and trust. Some say there’s a better way. Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive...
Human spaceflight has been racking up new milestones. But we’re still grappling with a fundamental question: Why go in the first place? By Becky Ferreira
The world is full of extraordinary young people brimming with ideas for how to crack tough problems. Every year, we recognize 35 such individuals from around the world—all of whom are under the age of 35. Every year, our newsroom selects 35...
