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Care.com   Live Science: What happens when a baby takes its first breath?   Two blood vessels unique to fetuses disappear   Within secon...

Quartz : After each Star Wars film come the Star Wars babies Star Wars is everywhere. With the latest installment of the film series ab...

Scientists think adding a baby's imaginative powers and all-around braininess to computers would make these machines smarter and more hu...

Carla Tarantino-Marie and her 2-year-old daughter Violette, reading together. Viorel Florescu for New York Daily News Every 2-Year-Old Shoul...

A baby watches objects bounce around an enclosure during an experiment on infant cognition. CREDIT: L. Bonatti & E. Teglas Babies Are Ca...

Doctors who measured brain activity in babies subjected to a painful procedure found that even when they they did not cry or grimace there w...

From The Telegraph: Babies are born to dance and find the rhythm and tempo of music more engaging than speech, research has shown. A study o...

Eating a high-fat diet around conception increases the odds of giving birth to a boy, while low fat consumption with periods of long fasts f...

From Live Science: Celebrities aren't the only ones giving their babies unusual names. Compared with decades ago, parents are choosing l...

Being bilingual starts in the womb. Credit: iStockphoto From Cosmos/AFP: WASHINGTON: Babies who hear two languages regularly when they are i...

From Live Science: Next time your baby cries, you might want to hold the little one up to your iPhone. A new app could translate those yells...

From Live Science: Babies born in the United States are getting smaller, according to a new study. The findings suggest that birth weights i...

To test out a device that keeps embryos in motion, researchers placed early-stage mouse embryos into a thimble-sized funnel, at the bottom o...

From Popular Mechanics: Increasingly sophisticated genetic tests make it possible for parents to choose their baby’s traits. Here are three ...

Why does a human baby need a full year before it can start walking, while a newborn foal gets up on its legs almost directly after birth? (C...

Photo: Pollutant chemicals found in breast milk have been linked to testicular cancer Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph: Pollutant chemicals...

Electrodes recorded brain activity while infants grabbed for toys. The same brain area showed activity whether infants grabbed for a toy the...

(iStock photo) From Boston.com: It's unfocused, random, and extremely good at what it does. How we can learn from a baby's brain. WH...

From Live Science: Are you listening to me? Didn't I just tell you to get your coat? Helloooo! It's cold out there... So goes many a...

When a large study linked schizophrenia to paternal age, some researchers wondered if the root cause, rather than age, was that men who had ...