NOVAK DJOKOVIC first picked up a tennis racket when he was four years old. At the age of 12 he left his native Serbia for a tennis academy in Germany. He won his first major title—the 2008 Australian ...

Basket the border collie seems to have a way with words. The 7-year-old dog, who resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, knows the names of at least 150 toys — “froggy,” “crayon box” and ...

Let's face it, Seattle hit the jackpot when thy discovered young Julio Rodriguez. After being signed as a teenager, he cruised through the ranks of the minors, eventually making his debut at the ...

Eavesdropping on their owners seems to help some toy-crazy and talented pups learn more words. Eavesdropping on their owners seems to help some toy-crazy and talented pups learn more words. Miso, a ...

Hungary’s disproportionate scientific output can be traced back to its revolutionary education system. Instead of drilling rules, teachers encouraged students to derive formulas themselves, turning ...

William J. Sidis, who in 1909, aged eleven, rosy-cheeked, delivered a lecture on the fourth dimension before the Department of Mathematics at Harvard, was even more a prodigy than Professor ...

Three years ago, one Andrew J. (“Bossy”) Gillis, red-headed retired Navy “gob,” bought a choice corner in Newburyport, Mass., and set about erecting a gasoline station. Staid citizens invoked the town ...

It is shaping as yet another big year in Australian sport. That is particularly true for a select group of talented youngsters.