Four reasons teens take part in social media challenges
Social media challenges are wide-ranging—both in the stunts they involve and the reasons why people do them.
Sep 22, 2023
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Social media challenges are wide-ranging—both in the stunts they involve and the reasons why people do them.
Sep 22, 2023
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Viral social media trends started innocently enough.
May 19, 2023
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Eight years after the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went viral across social media and raised hundreds of millions of dollars for research, a Cambridge company is on the brink of a major breakthrough for ALS patients.
Sep 26, 2022
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Brian Wallach can only move two fingers, but that's not stopping him from using his voice.
Feb 21, 2022
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Supporters of Pete Frates are taking one last chilly plunge for the former college baseball player whose battle with Lou Gehrig's disease helped spread the ALS ice bucket challenge.
Dec 28, 2019
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Pete Frates, a former college baseball player whose determined battle with Lou Gehrig's disease helped inspire the ALS ice bucket challenge that has raised more than $200 million worldwide, died Monday. He was 34.
Dec 9, 2019
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Thousands of people took the Ice Bucket Challenge, a sensation in the summer of 2014. Participants were filmed dumping buckets of ice-cold water on their heads and challenging their friends to do the same. Challenged participants ...
Jun 27, 2018
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Scientists have revealed more details of the molecular mechanism behind neuronal cell death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a step toward controlling progression of the disease.
Dec 27, 2017
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The ALS Association says a man credited as one of the co-founders of the viral "Ice Bucket Challenge" that swept social media in 2014 has died after a yearslong battle with the condition known as Lou Gerhig's disease. Anthony ...
Nov 30, 2017
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Pete Frates was mistakenly written off as dead this summer. Turns out, the man who helped spark the ice bucket challenge that raised millions of dollars for research on Lou Gehrig's disease hasn't gone anywhere yet.
Oct 3, 2017
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