Researchers in Turkey have identified a potential biological link between early fetal development and the later emergence of ...

New research tracks how THC exposure during pregnancy disrupts fetal brain development and leads to sustained structural ...

As soon as a baby is born, it begins to scope out its surroundings. Noticing that a baby recognises a voice or settles down ...

Air pollution significantly affects pregnant women and their unborn babies, increasing risks of low birth weight, premature birth, and respiratory illnesses.

A newborn's first cry is a vital sign of a healthy transition to life outside the womb, signaling the lungs opening and the ...

Dr Ilovi dismissed claims that mothers contribute more to intelligence because of the X chromosome, saying such arguments oversimplify a highly complex process. “You can’t attribute one trait like ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

The human brain experiences five distinct eras as we age, and each is defined by changes in our neural architecture that influence how we process information, new research shows. The brain changes ...

The brain has five major structural phases during the human lifespan and doesn't reach adulthood until age 32, a new study suggests. Scientists determined that brain development is defined by four ...