A group of Nigerian girls living in Ireland have won an international tech competition with an app that helps people with dementia. Three teens took first place in Technovation Girls, a contest challenging young women and families to use technology to address real-world problems. Their app, Memory Haven, was on one of 16 finalists at the … Read more
Pre-teen and teenage children are about twice as likely as younger kids to catch coronavirus and spread it at school, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveals. Since the COVID-19 pandemic really kicked off in the US in March, 277,285 children have caught the virus. Older and Latinx children were each about twice … Read more
Martin Lewis has criticised the UK’s politicians for scaring teenagers and putting them off going to university with talk of student debt after an 11-year-old girl admitted she’s already looking for a job to help with tuition fees. Speaking on the Martin Lewis Show on ITV last night, the financial expert pleaded for teenagers not … Read more
Spending time on social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok does not increase the risk of mental health issues among teenagers, a study claims. Isolation, cyberbullying and a supposed obsession with how we’re portrayed online has led to claims that social media is fuelling a rise in depression and other psychological disorders among … Read more
Two men have been arrested after two 15-year-old boys were stabbed in a mass rave in Westcliff, Essex, last night, according to police. Essex Police were called at around 7pm yesterday to reports of a large group of people fighting, including some with weapons, in Chalkwell Esplanade near Chalkwell train station. A police helicopter assisted … Read more
Teens who go to bed late and sleep-in are nearly three times more likely to have asthma, experts find Scientists found a stricter bedtime could reduce the risk of asthma in youngsters Those who went to bed late were almost three times more likely to have asthma The researchers, from the University of Alberta, studied almost … Read more
Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas giggle like teens as the lovebirds take a stroll around Venice By David Lawrance For Dailymail.com Published: 21:19 BST, 1 July 2020 | Updated: 21:19 BST, 1 July 2020 They’re no romantic novices, with each having already been through a divorce. But Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas giggled … Read more
A man has been arrested in the shooting death of a woman in Manhattan’s Flatiron district on Thursday night. Ruddy Osias, 27, of Bayswater, Queens, has been charged murder over the death of Erica Lopez, 19. Lopez and her boyfriend Andres Arias, 21, had been at a birthday celebration on a swanky rooftop bar in … Read more
For those who have been self-isolating with older offspring, it might be tempting to consider introducing some more space – just in case there is another lockdown in the near future. The number of 20-to-34-year-olds in the UK now living at home increased by a third between 1998 and 2017, according to a report by … Read more
Last week, a TikTok video of teenagers finding human remains in Seattle went viral, both captivating and horrifying online viewers. But for many, it’s still confusing how they managed to land on those human remains in the first place. Enter ‘randonauting,’ the online trend that has some smartphone users traveling to randomly-generated coordinates to explore … Read more