At age 6, Mozart performed at the court of the Prince-elect Maximilian II of Bavaria. At age 8, Joy Foster represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Caribbean championships in Trinidad. What do the ...

It would be easy to pass off “Gifted” as merely a feel-good movie about a 7-year-old math prodigy. But the film is much deeper than that and raises the fundamental and perplexing question of what is ...

Anime’s imaginative storytelling is filled with familiar tropes, and one of the most enduring is the "child prodigy." These young characters, blessed with intellect or abilities far beyond their years ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A doctor treating children with genetic diseases in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, a freshwater turtle expert chronicling the wetlands of New England and a former child math prodigy from ...