The findings are "potentially representing a broader need to clarify and establish standards that reduce the risk of transmission," said one researcher Despite their colorful atmosphere and beckoning ...

Pre-pandemic, ball pits were a thing. Filled with colorful plastic balls and teeming with kids, they were a staple of fast-food play areas, birthday parties and fun centers. Hip Instagrammable ...

DAHLONEGA, Georgia - Ball pits have been enticing children to jump in since they started popping up in restaurant chains in the 1980s, but a new study found that kids are basically jumping into a sea ...

BOSTON (CBS) – Does your child just love to romp around in a pool of colorful balls? A new study finds that ball pits can be riddled with germs. Researchers at the University of North Georgia looked ...

There’s a reason the famous Christmas song “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” includes the line, “Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.” It’s not that we don’t love ...

Developer Kenny Sun and Devolver Digital's Nigel Lowrie discuss why Ball x Pit has been so successful in an increasingly ...

Ball pits are colorful, fun and ... crawling with germs, according to a study published late last month in the American Journal of Infection Control. To conduct the study, researchers with the ...

A lot of fantastic roguelites have been released in 2025, from Hades 2 to Absolum to Cloverpit. Each creates that feeling of “one more run” in their own unique way, but the one that has its hooks in ...

Ball pits are every parent's nightmare for their human children; I contracted the absolute worst sickness of my life from a ball pit when I was 17. Public ball pits feel like something that should be ...