Babies

A food oppression expert explains why America's formula problem can only get worse.

• By Emily Moon

Two new studies add to the evidence that we make the distinction between members of our group and outsiders very early in life.

• By Tom Jacobs

How were thousands of Afghan refugees all born on January 1st? The answer lies at the intersection of warfare and the digital age.

• By Ruchi Kumar

Just under one percent of women who become infected with Zika during their first trimester will have babies with microcephaly, according to new research.

• By Francie Diep

The Zika virus outbreak in the Americas hits on the things that risk-perception researchers know worry people most. Will that be enough to overcome people's fears about genetically modified mosquitoes?

• By Francie Diep

Some data to follow up on our story last week about a home birth gone wrong.

• By Francie Diep

As a new non-invasive technology makes prenatal genetic tests more common, many more pregnant women will have to choose whether or not to have a disabled child.

• By Michael White

The Chinese government's pollution-cutting efforts for the 2008 Olympics improved birth weights in the city, a new study finds.

• By Francie Diep

A preliminary study indicates that dads speak in the same tones with kids as they do adults.

• By Nathan Collins

And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

• By Francie Diep

Genetically engineered babies raise a host of disturbing, science fiction-worthy ethical questions, but we have a more mundane and much more urgent issue to consider: safety.

• By Michael White

Babies provide more help to adults who bounce in-sync with them along to music.

• By Paul Bisceglio

The bacteria may be crucial to early feeding.

• By John Upton

Will Orange Is the New Black show the complicated reality?

• By Lauren Kirchner

More efficient than in vitro fertilization and cheaper than traditional adoption, embryo adoption, which also provides parents with the experience of carrying a child, is becoming more popular. But our legislature is still struggling with serious legal issues surrounding the practice.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

This simple idea, encouraged by medical texts of the past that taught deviation from the norm would lead to confused sexuality and gender identity issues, has put a surprising number of babies under the knife.

• By Alice Dreger

How much is enough certainty to make a decision about life or death, sickness or health?

• By Bonnie Tsui

It sounds shocking, but this is not a new argument.

• By Jay Livingston

New research suggests some of our aesthetic preferences emerge by the time we're eight months old.

• By Tom Jacobs