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

A combined team of roboticists from CREATE Lab, EPFL and Nestlé Research Lausanne, both in Switzerland, has developed a soft robot that was designed to mimic human infant motor development and the way ...

National data tells us how many healthy, full-term babies are exclusively breastfed when they leave hospitals, but for those ...

New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that prolonged and/or repeated exposure to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) anesthetic agents (sevoflurane, ...

An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the use of child-directed speech, where caregivers communicate with children, often involving a particular speech style also termed "baby talk." Numerous ...