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WebCan a Preteen’s Reaction to a Face Predict Their Future Social Lives?
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (326+ words) The developing brains of boys and girls light up differently when shown a face 4:00 PM CDT on July 14, 2026 Humans are social animals, so seeing a fellow human face triggers a cascade of activity in our brains. Information about the age,…...
New Fathers Are Dying, and We Don’t Know Why
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (831+ words) A conversation with a pediatrician about the first study to track paternal mortality 2:00 PM CDT on May 12, 2026 I spoke with Garfield about why understanding these numbers better is important for families, whether the deaths among new fathers are somehow linked…...
Who Gets to Do Science?
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (710+ words) A neuroscientist who spent the last decade tearing down the class, race, and language barriers that keep people like him out of research 1:00 PM CDT on March 31, 2026 What was your first exposure to science as a kid? My very first…...
The Internet Has Not Killed Reading—or Attention Spans
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (491+ words) An interview with Kevin Ashton, MIT technology pioneer and author of The Story of Stories 11:01 AM CDT on March 24, 2026 Ashton knew a revolution was coming. But to grasp what that revolution would look like required him to go back and…...
Babies Learn the Art of Deception Before Their First Birthday
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (301+ words) Kids love to lie—almost right from the womb 4:34 PM CDT on March 16, 2026 An international team of psychologists led by Elena Hoicka of the University of Bristol asked parents of more than 750 children up to 47 months old to complete an…...
How Being a Good Dad Makes for Healthier Children
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (149+ words) Paternal warmth before the age of 1 can set the tone for the family and influence physical health years later The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading The researchers were surprised by the finding about mothers’ care and kids…...
How Having Kids Makes Parents Disgust-Proof
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (269+ words) Science at the Ballot Box Women in Science & Engineering All those dirty diapers make it pretty hard to get grossed out about anything else The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading It’s hard to imagine that soiled diapers…...
Your Infant Knows Exactly What Your Baby Talk Means
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (280+ words) Science at the Ballot Box Women in Science & Engineering It may help infants learn vowel sounds The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading Some people refuse to use baby talk with babies. The sing-song repetition of cute nonsense…...
How Childbearing Leaves Its Imprint on Mothers’ Biological Age
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (497+ words) Science at the Ballot Box Women in Science & Engineering The number of kids a woman has and when she has them may shape her later years The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading Having kids is costly. Not…...
How Financial Hardship Shows Up in Baby Brains
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (350+ words) Science at the Ballot Box Women in Science & Engineering Early financial strain can have a measurable impact on how infant brains develop The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading In the first year of life, human babies are…...