If you have an elementary age kid, tween or teen, you know all about the fidget spinner craze. For the last couple of months, this small bearing device made of three blades that fit in your fingers ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. That fidget spinner your kid can’t put down? It turns out it may be putting ...

Fidget spinners — the multipronged, whirling gadgets that became so popular this year that some schools banned them as a distraction — have been marketed as playful diversions meant to help people ...

As if worrying about funding and quality teachers isn’t enough, now schools on both sides of the Atlantic are dealing with a mighty serious problem of another sort: fidget spinners and their cousins, ...

The wildly popular fidget spinners that seem to be in the hands of the half the children in the U.S. are also potentially dangerous, a consumer watchdog group warned Wednesday.The small plastic and ...

It turns out there’s a hidden meaning to fidget spinners — and it’s sure to surprise you. Fidget spinners are a hugely popular toy trend and they’re marketed as a stress reliever — as well as being ...

In a matter of weeks, fidget spinners went from something almost nobody had ever heard of to the must-have toy of the season. The anxiety-reducing handheld spinners are so ubiquitous that dozens of ...

It had to come to this. For his entry into this year’s Hackaday Prize, [Sean Hodgins] created a persistence of vision fidget spinner. This isn’t just any PoV fidget spinner — this is the ultimate in ...

Russia' consumer protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, says it is looking into fidget spinners' possible negative effects on children's health amid allegations on Russian television programs that the ...

Are fidget spinners helping antsy students to sit still and concentrate on their lessons, or are they just driving kids (and teachers) to distraction? Education Week‘s Kristine Kim explores the ...

This will make your head spin. A Kickstarter project for an object billed as an upscale, adult version of the fidget spinner has raised $41,000 and counting. Atlanta-based accessories maker Bastion ...

The clock is ticking down for 2017, bringing an eventful year to a close. Before you head off on a well-deserved break, take a look at our list of the 10 most-read Teaching Now posts this year. 10.