In 1998, Joanne Ruthsatz traveled to Louisiana to meet a 6-year-old musical genius. Ruthsatz, a graduate student at the time, hoped to evaluate the boy as part of her work “unearthing the inner ...

Ari Dyckovsky has never exactly followed a traditional path. As a second-grader, he completed complex math work sheets for fun. By the time he was an 18-year-old student at the Loudoun Academy of ...

Marvel Comics' recent introduction of Riri Williams, a black MIT science prodigy taking up the Iron Man mantle, continues the publisher's efforts to diversify its superhero ranks on the page. She ...