Are you a nervous first time mom-to-be who wants nothing but the very best for your little one? Most people would say yes, and figure out that if their kid listens to Mozart or other musical geniuses while they were in the womb, they would turn out to be at the top of the class [...]

Behold this graphic but compelling footage of the first ever elephant birth filmed in Bali, Indonesia.

It’s a rough life as a young child in India
Despite India’s economic prosperity, nearly two million children under the age of five, die every year in the country, the highest number anywhere in the world, a media report said today.
More than half of them die the month after birth and 400,000 in their first 24 [...]

Albino siblings Esthefany Caroline, Ruth Caroline, Kauan pose with their mother Rosemere Fernandes and their brothers
A black mother has baffled scientists after giving birth to three albino children.  Parents Rosemere Fernandes de Andrade and her partner Joao are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians, yet three of their five children are albinos.
 

There aren’t just fewer jobs in the U.S. recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet.
 

Its great to see that some whales that are making a come back
Puiji and Naya are expecting. The twenty-something beluga whales at Shedd Aquarium are pregnant, a facility official said, with calves expected to be born this fall.

Nixing Night Time Nookie

India intends to harness the passion-killing properties of late-night television to help to control a potentially catastrophic population explosion.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Health and Family Welfare Minister, has called for the country to redouble its efforts to bring electricity to all of its huge rural population.
The introduction of the electric light and [...]

A new monkey — dubbed Mura’s saddleback tamarin — has been discovered in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced on July 7 the discovery of a new monkey in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil.

A Model of the Inside
Pregnant women are being given the chance to hold life-size models of their unborn babies, thanks to an invention that converts data from ultrasound and MRI scans.
Jorge Lopes, a Brazilian designer, uses 3-D printing technology to create the plaster models, which go on show today at an exhibition at the Royal [...]

Men are the weaker sex
Scientists have found that boys are more likely to develop complications during a mother’s pregnancy and carry greater risk of difficult or premature delivery.

Twins with different fathers 
Mia Washington, an American mother, has given birth to twins who have different fathers.  Miss Washington admitted she was having an affair when she conceived, when two eggs were fertilised by the sperm of two men.   “I have twins, but they’re by different fathers,” said Miss Washington told Fox News.

The Blaby; a touch sensitive MP3 player designed to play soothing songs to an unborn child  
Pregnant mothers will soon be able to play their favourite songs to their unborn children with the invention of an MP3 players for babies.

 
 
China has 32 million more young men than young women – a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime – because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released Friday said.

Beware of EXTREMELY Explosive Diarrhea!

A chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives has been found in 15 baby foods tested by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though no one appears too worried.
The US watchdog said the unnamed formulas contained traces of perchlorate, a salt derivative used in fireworks and rocket fuel and to [...]

Pablo Picasso, 66, with his son  
Read between the lines of a recent study out of Australia and you can see hints of a coming shift in the gender conversation. Researchers at the University of Queensland found that children born to older fathers have, on average, lower scores on tests of intelligence than those born to [...]

Heart muscle cells can be grown from human embryonic stem cells, but new research suggests the adult heart can grow new cells, too. 
 
The human heart has a notorious reputation for being unable to heal itself, but new research suggests it is capable of at least some self-repair. Using carbon dating to gauge the age of [...]

U.S. 2007 Baby Boomlet
More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation’s history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday.

 
Black and white twins Hayleigh and Layren Durrant proudly hold their new sisters Leah and Miya – who incredibly are also twins with different colored skin.
Their mixed-race parents Dean Durrant and Alison Spooner repeated the two-tone miracle after a seven-year gap.   When the first set of twins arrived in 2001, the couple were astonished to [...]

Inspiration can strike at odd times. Anthony Mikrut got the idea for his business about 3 o’clock one morning, when he and a girlfriend were in search of some products to enhance their special evening. “We figured you can get pizza any time of night,” he said. “Why can’t you get [sex] toys?”
Thus was born [...]

 
 Baby addicted to cocaine
One sister is 14; the other is 9. They are a vibrant pair: the older girl is high-spirited but responsible, a solid student and a devoted helper at home; her sister loves to read and watch cooking shows, and she recently scored well above average on citywide standardized tests.

I just yelled “BANG”and look what happened!

Pedigree dogs have become increasingly stupid as they are now bred for their looks, not their brains, according to new research.
Their mental and physical agility of many breeds is being eroded as owners now look for docile, pretty pets to live in their homes.
In the 19th century dogs [...]

Clean Living Through Gender Bending Chemicals

According to a new meta-study by CHEMTrust drawing on more than 250 scientific studies from around the world, males of the species are in danger of becoming “feminized” by gender-bender chemicals:
Wildlife and people have been exposed to more than 100,000 new chemicals in recent years, and the European Commission has [...]

 
 Neural stem cells, tagged green with a fluorescent dye, have been transplanted among the brain cells (red) of a mouse born with brain damage after its mother was given heroin during pregnancy.
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. [...]

 
Women who smoke during pregnancy risk delivering aggressive kids according to a new Canada-Netherlands study published in the journal Development and Psychopathology. While previous studies have shown that smoking during gestation causes low birth weight, this research shows mothers who light up during pregnancy can predispose their offspring to an additional risk: violent behaviour.

High Numbers Of Right Whales Seen In Gulf Of Maine
A large number of North Atlantic right whales have been seen in the Gulf of Maine in recent days, leading right whale researchers at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center to believe they have identified a wintering ground and potentially a breeding ground for this endangered species.