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Thousands of new mothers are being readmitted to hospital in England every year, figures reveal, raising fresh concerns about NHS maternity care.Discharging women from hospital prematurely…

October 7, 20253 min readBabies’ Brains Recognize Foreign Languages They Heard before BirthBabies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers…

September 7, 20253 min readThese Ants Are Different Species but Share a MotherAnt queens of one species are sexual parasites that clone ants of another species…

In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children, on average. By 2014, that figure had fallen to around two. As of…

It was one of the most horrifying targets of Russia’s war on Ukraine so far. Reports showed a pregnant woman on a stretcher, her face ashen…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.When it comes to birth control, men have exactly two reliable options: condoms or a vasectomy. That’s…

August 12, 20252 min readCosmic Tornado from Star’s Birth Whirls in Dazzling JWST ImageThis telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and…

There are few better metaphors for the receding status of American women than one offered up by the Trump administration at a medical waste disposal facility…

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Early in the Civil War, Oliver Wendell…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” now playing in theaters. You’ll have to forgive Vanessa Kirby if she’s a…