It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public ...

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A leading bioethicist at Hiroshima University is calling for an anticipatory, rather than reactive, approach to ethics after ...

In a large Japanese birth cohort, cesarean delivery was not linked to higher risks of eczema, wheezing, atopic dermatitis, or ...

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The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

Research teams from the Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University have documented the first discovery of five freshwater ...

Scientists with the Norwegian Orca Survey and Orca Channel have documented, for the first time and in astounding detail, the birth of an orca and the newborn's first hour.

A new study that links extreme rains with lower birth weights in Brazil's Amazon region underscores the long-term health ...

Massachusetts researchers examine how growth and learning are subtly shaped among children whose mothers had Covid-19 while ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...