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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vlogger Charlie White scored thousands of pit balls during Toys R Us’ closing sale for a really affordable price. He used the multicolored balls to construct a huge ball pit in his home for his ...