Parenting rules and tips are constantly evolving, but there are some parenting practices that are better off in the past. Here are eight outdated, old-school pieces of parenting advice.

Ancient civilisations used fasting to harmonise human mind, body and soul before codified divine guidance. Egyptians, Mesopotamians and Zoroastrianism practised priestly fasting for encounters with ...

The world is going gaga over a seven-month-old Japanese macaque named Punch. This primate, who was abandoned by his mother, has spurred thousands of videos online, a surge in the sale of an IKEA toy, ...

When children spend their formative years staring at glass screens instead of human faces, they miss out on the critical development of mirror neurons, which are responsible for empathy.

In the film Ex Machina, the robot Ava has few if any interests in common with Caleb. She deceives him into believing she has feelings for him but in the end, betrays him, and she escapes from the ...

One of the most important and least resolved questions in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRDs) is why brain-damaging pathology emerges in later ...