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.

Help your toddler exercise his or her fine motor skills with Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog by Learning Resources. The toy comes with 12 peg-shaped "quills" that are easy for little hands to hold and ...

There’s a wild fascination with little kids and dinosaurs, although if you check the box office numbers for the Jurassic Park franchise, that fascination seems to last into adulthood. And there is no ...

With the holiday season in full swing, the toy industry is bustling with moms, dads, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends buying gifts for their littlest loved ones. Toy buying used to be simple: ...

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Ask scientists of a certain age about their childhood memories, and odds are they’ll start yarning about the stink bombs and gunpowder they concocted with their chemistry sets. Dangerous? Yes, but fun ...

Before video games and robotics competitions, toys were much simpler: girls got dolls; boys got model trains and bicycles. Toys that promoted learning and experimentation were rare until one inventor, ...