Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...

Meta Platforms Inc. and other major social media platforms blocked 4.7 million underage accounts in Australia last month as the country’s landmark social media ban for under-16s took effect. Access to ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Get your kiddos ready for the Kids & Bees Education Expo on January 10th, 2026. This is a free event with educational activities, real bees, honey tasting, candle making, and ...

Last week, Australia became the first country in the world to enact a social media ban for kids under 16. As the children of Oz wept and gnashed their teeth (I presume), Prime Minister Anthony ...

Leon Spencer is an Australian dad with an 11-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son. He creates content for social-media platforms and is glad that the new ban will help him keep his kids off them.

I am not a believer in bans or closures, as I demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic when I pushed in the summer of 2020 for schools to remain open, warning, along with Danny Benjamin of Duke ...

After Australian teens were kicked off of social media this week following a nationwide social media ban for anyone in the country under the age of 16, several lawmakers and other political figures ...

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A new law banning kids from prominent social media sites took effect in Australia on Wednesday, teeing up a key test of one of the most far-reaching approaches to protecting children online. The ...

Kids in Australia are in for an unprecedented change. Beginning Dec. 10, the owners of social media platforms including Instagram and TikTok will be required to take “reasonable steps” to prevent ...

Millions of Australian children awakened Wednesday with a case of FOMO. That’s because a new law went into effect barring anyone under 16 from having an account on any of the 10 most popular social ...

LOS ANGELES -- Imagine telling your teenage child that he or she couldn't use social media anymore. As terrifying as that sounds, Australia is doing it and many say the U.S. should do the same.