Witnessing aggressive python behavior in the wild ...

A human error at Anthropic reveals the architecture of autonomous AI agents, sparking a heated debate about copyright for ...

The number of babies born in the United States fell again last year. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 3.6 million births in 2025, a 1% decline from ...

The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025, continuing decades of decline, according to a report published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. "A 7% decline is really ...

It's usually more dangerous for women to give birth lying down, so why do they? It's all because of a Frenchman who decided it was more convenient – for men. For thousands of years, across the world, ...

A lawyer for the Trump administration during arguments at the Supreme Court leaned hard on his claim that so-called birth tourism is strong evidence that the U.S. policy of automatically giving ...

The term refers to pregnant women who travel to the United States to give birth so that their baby can have American citizenship. By Amy Qin When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Wednesday ...

When marine biologist Shane Gero spotted a plume of blood spreading across the water where a group of sperm whales had gathered in the Caribbean, he feared the worst — injury to one of the whales, ...

The marine mammals act like midwives, supporting mothers and their calves through delivery. Sperm whales swim off the coast of Dominica, where, in July 2023, Project CETI scientists witnessed a rare ...

The episode, involving a group of sperm whales, adds to evidence that humans aren’t the only species that gets some form of assistance during and after delivery. By Catrin Einhorn At first, the ...

President Donald Trump is pushing Congress to pass a sweeping election‑security bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote — raising new questions for Americans who don’t have easy access to ...

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