by Caitlin Giddings and Wirecutter Staff Some of the best gifts for 1-year-olds are those that engage kids’ rapidly developing motor skills, sensory exploration, and boundless curiosity.

This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living human cell. The art ...

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By Bruce Handy As spooky season approaches, the master of children’s horror recommends creepy-crawly classics and modern thrills for young readers. By R.L. Stine Loren Long has illustrated ...

While the kids have a lot of homework and Halloween planning to do, it’s still useful to know the best kids movies on Netflix right now. You never know when you might need a little distraction ...

See what the children of your favourite celebrity couples are getting up to. We share the cutest family snaps of celebrity children and babies that are fast becoming famous in their own right.

We can now measure the CMB—our single greatest piece of evidence about cosmic history—with a precision unimaginable at the turn of the millennium. We have mapped the distribution of galaxies ...

Whether you’re reading to your child, or they’re learning to read by themselves, little ones will want to return to these picture books for kids again and again. Full of loveable characters, playful ...