What's a governor? While, besides being someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger, a governor limits how fast you can drive by controlling the amount of fuel that reaches your engine. Ford will debut its MyKey system, which has this feature and more, on 2010 cars, starting with the Ford Focus. It will quickly become standard on many other Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models.

You might laugh at those Zits comic strips, which have shown a teenager text messaging his mother from across the room (and more), but you shouldn't. A recently released Neilsen Mobile report indicates that using a cell phone to actually talk to someone has become passe, and that text messaging is more popular than calling.

On June 4, a report published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that in the past 16 years high school students have become less likely to engage in health risk-related behaviors such as having sex and taking drugs.

Teenagers who excessively use their cell phone are more prone to disrupted sleep, restlessness, stress and fatigue, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).

Student scientists from the United States and around the world are converging in South Africa this month in what is likely to be one of the largest-ever international gatherings of teenage researchers. The conference, which takes place June 22-27 at the University of Cape Town, is organized by GLOBE, a worldwide science and education program operated in part by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

Victoria Lindsay, a Mulberry High School teen cheerleader, was violently ambushed by several girls and beaten suffering concussion, while one of the teenagers video taped the beating.

Many parents are convinced that the brains of their teenage offspring are different than those of children and adults. New data confirms that this is the case.

Many young people are effectively being ‘raised online’ spending in excess of 20 hours a week using sites such as bebo, Myspace, Facebook and YouTube, according to new research to be published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) next month. This is over three times higher than previous official estimates.

A campaign gets underway this week to help disadvantaged Nottingham teenagers work their way into Higher Education.

Teenagers in Bristol are to take part in a major new research project aimed at finding out if children who are double-jointed are at increased risk of developing joint and muscle pain during adolescence.

Suicidal tendencies increase among teenagers in Sweden.

More than 1,000 secondary school pupils in the East of England could soon be learning a new language online with Cambridge University.