Equal parts educational, challenging, and entertaining, there’s nothing quite like giving a child a quality science toy with the hopes of sparking an interest in one of many useful scientific fields.

Gone are the days when Tickle Me Elmo and Furby were in such high demand during the holiday season that parents couldn’t get their hands on them. While must-have toys have changed over the years, toys ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STEM learning might sound like some kind of fad simply because the acronym is fairly new, but the truth is that kids are ...

Research at Purdue University has led to development of a new kind of toy-building kit that allows children to create robots and control them remotely like a puppeteer. Here, the system is being used ...

STEM-based schoolwork is a key part of your kid’s curriculum, but encouraging genuine enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, and math that extends beyond the classroom requires more than a ...

When he was a child, Robijanto Soetedjo used to play with his electrically powered toys for a while and then, when he got bored, take them apart — much to the consternation of his parents. That ...

These days, parents worry about toys their kids play with being dangerous to an almost absurd degree. They’re always reporting this toy or that toy for potential choking hazards and whatnot. Well, ...