Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

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A study shows that social interactions in the nursery have a huge impact on babies’ microbiome development and may facilitate ...

Imagine a network more powerful than the internet: while the internet holds about one hundred trillion webpages, a baby’s ...

In the UK, 98% of two-year-olds watch screens on a typical day, on average for more than two hours – and almost 40% of three- to five-year-olds use social media. Could this lead to alarming outcomes?

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Follow Our Changing World on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Our brains never touch the ...

A new children’s creative learning center focused on music, movement and early development, Kindermusik, is set to open in ...

Newborns track faces from birth. But what happens when screens replace human eyes? The answer may shape how the next ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — How a new father behaves toward his baby can change family dynamics in a way that affects the child’s heart and metabolic health years later, according to a new study by ...

A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to ...