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.

If your little one (or not-so-little-one) is an aspiring paleontologist, star-gazer or chemist, one of these science-inspired toys may be right for your child. Here's a look at some of the best Cyber ...

Watch YouTubers light fireworks, toss in dry ice and conduct other action-packed science experiments in a pool full of tiny water beads. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, ...

A 5,000-year-old toy still enjoyed by kids today has inspired an inexpensive, hand-powered scientific tool that could not only impact how field biologists conduct their research but also allow ...

You can’t do away with sexism by doing away with sexist labeling. But it’s a start. So thanks, Boots. After an embarrassing kerfuffle over what it backwardly deems gender appropriate toys, the U.K.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission alerts parents about the recall of a toy called Monster Science Growing Spiders, warning that the pretend spider eggs, which grow eight times their size when ...

A wooden toy discovered during an excavation of an Iron Age site in central Norway hints that 1,000 years ago, a child may have imagined ferocious Viking battles by playing with a carved replica of a ...