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Pregnancy hormones help mice prepare to take care of their young by altering activity in neurons.

In her current work, the University of Southern California psychologist is examining how the transition to fatherhood affects men’s brains.

The organizers behind a Mothers in Science conference say that it’s time academia provide more support to researchers who are pregnant or looking after children.

For researchers who work with study participants in person, lockdowns made it impossible to obtain fresh data, a survey finds.

A National Academies study of COVID-19’s effect on academic researchers adds to the evidence that women’s careers have been particularly damaged by the global disruption.

The project did not assess any implications for children’s health, but the authors recommend changing up how parents use baby bottles to reduce the amount of plastic in formula or breastmilk.

Experts identify childcare, which tends to fall to women, as one likely cause for the relative decrease in women’s scientific productivity compared with men’s.

A support group for mothers is a model for practical, inexpensive steps to ease women’s transition to motherhood—and hopefully retain them in science.

Without access to their mothers’ milk, Toxeus magnus offspring die within the first 10 days of life.

Regardless of parental income and education, children who engage in more two-way conversation with their parents learn better.

Scandinavian mother bears gain a survival advantage by weaning their babies later than normal, analysis of a 30-year dataset suggests.

Doctors report that a regimen of hormones, an antiemetic drug, and pumping gave the woman enough milk production to feed her baby exclusively breastmilk for six weeks.