Among other benefits, breast milk contains natural sources of prebiotics: small, indigestible fiber molecules that promote the growth of good bacteria in the baby's gut. Yet for many families, ...

Share on Pinterest Adding prebiotics to formula may benefit baby’s brain. Anyone who has had children will have heard the phrase “breast is best.” This is a given, but, for a wide range of reasons, ...

Have you ever wondered why your earliest childhood memories begin around age three or four, with everything before that seemingly lost to time? A pioneering study from Yale University has uncovered ...

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by a simple question: Why can't you remember being a baby? Even though infants learn rapidly in their early years, most people can't recall anything from ...

A SUNY Cortland associate professor of psychology is making house calls to help parents and scientists better understand babies. Kimberly Kraebel is half way through a two-year infant learning and ...

Babies are capable of encoding memories even though they can't seem to retrieve them as adults, according to a new study. - Oscar Wong/Moment RF/Getty Images Do you ever wonder what it was like to be ...

Pregnant women who suffer from diabetes are more likely to have a child with memory problems, according to a new study. The researchers believe the children’s poor memories are the result of ...

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. A plume of red, a searing pain and the sounds of summer—these are fragments of my earliest memory, ...