Red Bank Catholic (RBC) Caseys girls basketball team is currently the top-ranked team in New Jersey for the 2025-2026 season and holds a perfect 6-0 overall record....

Speed over to your closest toy aisle and look for the Kei Swap — a new Hot Wheels car with ties to TCNJ. Designed by Matt Gabe ’05, lead packaging designer at Hot Wheels, the car is a throwback to the ’90s and was created from nearly start to finish by Gabe. A lifelong appreciator of cars, he’s had the Hot Wheels gig since 2009, designing the look of both large-scale playset packaging and individual die-cast car packages for the brand. Last fall, he was recognized as the guest of honor at the 38th Annual Hot Wheels Collectors Convention in Los Angeles. Here, we get behind the wheel with Gabe as he talks about his toy car...

A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds a new light on how young children think about possibilities. The study, led by Aimee Stahl, associate professor of psychology, found that children as young as two can intuitively distinguish between impossible events and possible but improbable events — and that they learn better from impossible events. In an experiment involving three toy-filled gumball machines and 335 two- and three-year-olds, Stahl and research partner Lisa Feigenson, co-director of the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Child Development, taught children that, like a regular gumball machine, inserting a coin would yield a prize. One machine contained equal parts pink and purple toys; another...