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 ...

Orion Jean Monaco, from USA, is a service prodigy whose acts of kindness have escalated into making a difference across the world. Having been recognized as a kid of the year by the publication TIME, ...

Young prodigies — the teenage sports stars, the high schoolers soaring up the chess ranks or making scientific discoveries — are usually not the same people who reach the pinnacles of their fields in ...

International chess masters, Olympic gold medallists and Nobel prize-winning scientists were rarely child prodigies, a review reveals. Likewise, early childhood successes and intense training ...

In 2023, Sydney Howard of Bolton was competing at the U.S. national snowboarding championship at Copper Mountain resort, in Frisco, Colo. During one of her slopestyle runs — an event in which riders ...

Two machines resembling robotic vacuum cleaners sped around a ring colliding, shooting sparks and catching fire, as Iranian engineering students watched from behind plexiglass. The dramatic clash was ...

Next year, Tate Britain will hold a splashy show on the end of the 20th century. A series of conversations at Art Basel Paris give a window onto the era — and the show ahead. By Nina Siegal Reporting ...

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...