Male and female brains begin developing differently in the womb. Here's how genetics, hormones, and prenatal biology shape brain structure, behaviour, and mental health outcomes before birth.

Something occurred to me recently that I’d never thought of before: porcupine birth. Yeah. Ouch, right? Covered head to tail ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in prenatal estrogen—revealed by looking at the length ...

A mum from Berkshire says she feels 'so lucky' to have a healthy baby son after her womb was temporarily lifted out at 20 weeks to allow for the removal of a cancerous tumour. Lucy Isaac, from Sonning ...

A tiny new probe can monitor an unborn baby's health inside the womb during surgery. It is the first device capable of continuously tracking the vital signs of a fetus while still in the uterus, say ...

A large-scale climate simulation combined with fossil evidence shows how shifts in temperature and rainfall guided human migration and evolution. Changes driven by Earth’s orbital cycles altered ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

Dogs are said to be a big help for new moms taking care of babies. This Instagram video shows how a Husky alerts his owner when their twins start to cry. In the clip, the pet parent claims that their ...

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s teen accusers alleged she was used as a “human incubator” to have the late pedophile’s baby — and the newborn was apparently snatched from her just minutes after giving birth.