N OVAK 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 ...

"Across the highest adult performance levels, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Late bloomers often outperform youth prodigies, research suggested. A study of 34,000 high achievers found that, across various ...

In the first few decades of the 20th century, child prodigies became national celebrities. Much like the movie stars, industrial titans and heavyweight champs of the day, their exploits were glorified ...

While many parents may assume that helping their kids specialize early in life prepares them for successful careers, the latest research suggests otherwise. You may have a leg up on the child ...

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 ...

This week on the program, we've been talking to and about prodigies: children with extraordinary abilities far beyond their age. Yesterday, we talked about how hard it is to find the right balance, ...

Prodigies – and other highly gifted children, for that matter – are likewise protective of others and have a deeply felt sense of justice. They can become terribly upset if a classmate is wronged, and ...

The Church of the Holy Trinity in Oxford will hold a concert featuring select students of the Leon Fleisher Academy. The ...

You may have a leg up on the child prodigies who made you feel inadequate as a school kid. Despite outliers like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a new analysis based on 19 studies involving 34,000 high ...