A new study carried out at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab offers a novel insight into the early acquisition of ...

Note that when we are using abstract nouns that are not qualified or not fully qualified, zero article is normal usage: Education in Britain begins when children are four and a half, normally.

He was sentenced to ten days' prison.' Otherwise, if the plural noun is irregular, like 'children' or 'women', you add apostrophe s ('s), as you would for singular nouns: 'The children's party was ...