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 trendy toy of the moment — are causing a commotion. A lot of kids love them, just as many teachers hate them and some people think they're more than just toys. The basic fidget ...

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 ...

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, ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — It is permissible to play with fidget spinners on Shabbat, rabbis at an institute that looks at science and Jewish law have determined. Rabbis at the Scientific and Technologic ...

You heard of fidget spinners? I'm playing with one right now. It's a kind of fluorescent green, and it just spins and spins. I was skeptical, but it's fun. The fad has also become a little ...

Fidgeting didn't start with the spinner craze. If you've ever clicked a ballpoint pen again and again, you've used a fidget item. As part of our work, we've asked people what items they like to fidget ...

A wildly popular toy was inspired during the First Intifada when an inventor dreamed of a way of distracting young demonstrators. The inventor of the ubiquitous stress-reducing toy says she came up ...