Maybe when we were their age, we walked five miles to school, rain or shine. So why don't most children today walk or bike to school?

A new website game called Miss Bimbo targets teenage girls and those starting at 9 years old having the creation of a Miss Bimbo doll that is cool as point of the game. There is more to it including things like plastic surgery and breast augmentation. Miss Bimbo has already attracted widespread condemnation.

Today’s video games and online virtual worlds give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before. But despite having your hair, your height, and your hazel eyes, your avatar is still little more than just a pretty face.

A University of Michigan study finds that when it comes to achievement gaps within racial groups, catching up over time is common.

Australian toddlers are consuming more energy than they need, putting them at risk of overweight and obesity, according to new research in Nutrition & Dietetics published by Wiley-Blackwell.

It's a bitter, windswept day in the Russian capital and 25 children are huddled around a table set up outside the Estonian Embassy, coloring in a giant poster of a statue of a soldier. They've just spent nearly three hours on a bus driving from the city of Vladimir, and from the looks of it, most of them just want to go home.

Well, according to data analysis by Michael Friendly, a professor with the Psychology Department at York University, the boats launched from each side of the doomed ship show a different pattern when it comes to percentage of men on board: on the port (left) side, the first few boats were only lightly loaded, and contained a large number of male passengers and crewmen.

The winners of the Picturing the New Ashmolean Children’s Art Competition were announced at a special awards ceremony and launch of the new graphics to feature on the back of two Oxford Bus Company buses on Sunday 27 January.

Adding fluoride chemicals into community water supplies started in Grand Rapids Michigan where tooth decay is rising along with fluoride over-dose symptoms.

Kids may roll their eyes when their mother asks them about their school day, but answering her may actually help them learn. New research from Vanderbilt University reveals that children learn the solution to a problem best when they explain it to their mom.

Vilma and William were the most popular names for new born babies in Sweden for 2007.

The European Union will today come closer to a universal treaty on the physical punishment of children.