The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025, continuing decades of decline, according to a report published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. "A 7% decline is really ...

Birth tourism has become big business, as concierge services and others rake in cash assisting foreigners who want to have their babies in the U.S. The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments ...

A lawyer for the Trump administration during arguments at the Supreme Court leaned hard on his claim that so-called birth tourism is strong evidence that the U.S. policy of automatically giving ...

When marine biologist Shane Gero spotted a plume of blood spreading across the water where a group of sperm whales had gathered in the Caribbean, he feared the worst — injury to one of the whales, ...

“Not only did we capture such an amazing dataset, but we actually knew each of these whales,” says marine biologist David Gruber, who leads Project CETI, a nonprofit based partly in the Caribbean ...

The marine mammals act like midwives, supporting mothers and their calves through delivery. Sperm whales swim off the coast of Dominica, where, in July 2023, Project CETI scientists witnessed a rare ...

The episode, involving a group of sperm whales, adds to evidence that humans aren’t the only species that gets some form of assistance during and after delivery. By Catrin Einhorn At first, the ...

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Companies with names like USA Happy Baby and Star Baby Care offered to shepherd pregnant women from China – or any other country – into the United States to give birth to children recognized as U.S.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have found that two factors related to birth are linked to lower intelligence scores and poorer educational ...