Scientists have long thought humans have a uniquely difficult birth compared with other primates. And it's true that, from an ...

A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with ...

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People have found language for moodiest part of their menstrual cycles, and the right has seized on it ...

As billions of people can attest, giving birth is hard for humans. Our infants have an exceptionally large head for their body size and yet have to squeeze through a very narrow pelvis. Appendages can ...

A study in mice reveals how pregnancy hormones influence the brain’s reward system, helping explain why newborns become a ...

So your partner wants to have a baby. You want to be child-free. How do you get on the same page about whether or not to start a family? Over the past 50 years, Merle Bombardieri, a psychotherapist ...

Neuroimaging and animal research reveal how pregnancy hormones remodel neural circuits and leave a long-lasting mark on women ...

Grey hair looks like decline, but it’s really a window into why evolution stops bothering to fix certain things. What’s not in question is that greying is essentially universal given enough time, ...

A new systematic review has found that both the way a baby is born and exposure to antibiotics around the time of birth could ...

Travis Kelce is responding to Dolly Parton’s lighthearted request to “have” the first baby he welcomes with his now-wife, Taylor Swift. After the newlyweds donated a reported $26 million to various ...