A new study found that the mortality rate for women with no children is 4.9 per 1,000, yet notably dips to 1.6 among women who give birth after 45.

Actress delivered a 7.5-pound baby girl at her Pennsylvania farm on July 2.

Raising a child in a mentally stimulating environment has been linked to developing a smaller brain cortex, which in turn is linked to higher IQ.

What is gripe water and what does malaria have to do with colic? (Besides making babies and everyone around them miserable, that is.)

Water immersion may be OK for labor, but not for delivery, says panel of pediatricians and OBGYNS.

Tour just a couple of the super-efficient gut renovation projects that have helped transform Brooklyn into a hotbed of passive house building activity.

Visit Steve Sauer's Seattle apartment, a 182-square-foot storage unit transformed into a cozy dwelling.

Naturally, the man responsible for the geodesic dome also lived in one. Now, Bucky's landmark 1960 structure will be restored and opened as a museum.

Apartments are expensive and hard to find. Is co-living a solution or is it just an upscale rooming house?

The Kennedy Space Center hideaway sustained significant damage from Hurricane Matthew.

The United Nations General Assembly has officially recognized access to safe, clean drinking water as a basic human right.

Quinoa is one of the most nutritious foods on the planet, cooked like rice, gluten-free, and loaded with vitamins and minerals.

Discussions about the Russian meteor explosion and Earth's encounter with asteroid 2012 DA14 were high on the Feb. 15 agenda of a UN meeting.

A new international effort will monitor potential asteroid threats and examine how to deflect them before they hit Earth.

An early alert system and rapid space launches are two ways that the UN is coordinating with other agencies to deter asteroids.

Many common sleep problems can be remedied by small, but specific, changes to nutrition.

Researchers add color-coded traffic symbols along with calorie counts to a menu to see how they influence people's choices.

Saturated fat-lovers ,rejoice! A new study delivers some good news about eating full-fat cheeses.

Beautiful photos show the desert in Yucca Valley, California, and Joshua Tree National Park covered in snow.

Photo of hungry sharks wins Underwater Photographer of the Year contest, which also selected winners in more than a dozen categories.

The U.S.-backed proposal was opposed by Canada, which is home to two-thirds of the world's polar bears.

The governor’s office of the Arctic Svalbard islands is seeking to fill the temporary position beginning July 8.

Video: How these roly-poly, spineless worms are serving as role models for soft material robots.

Video: A Florida marine ecologist narrows down the spread of the first lobster virus.

Video: Dennis Hong is living his dreams — literally — in a lab filled with wacky robots.

Researchers study ants and their complex, productive societies to help address some of human society's most pressing challenges.

Video: Observing a split in the butterfly family tree.

Babies are oriented towards pro-social individuals. They prefer interacting with a pro-social individual over an anti-social individual.

Video: Teams from the Disaster Research Center (DRC) go to devastated locations to learn more about how lives may be saved in the future.

Video: When we use water, much of it must undergo energy-intensive cleaning at a treatment plant before flowing back to the environment. Microbial fuel cells ma

Video: Digitized images of very thin slices of the human brain are used to determine whether behavior patterns are reflected in the structure of the brain.

Locked-in syndrome, often the result of injury or illness (such as Lou Gehrig's), causes complete paralysis. With advanced technology, these people get closer t

History has been made. Today is for the hangover, and then the hard work. Six distinguished environmentalists weigh in.

An MNN column causes an uproar in the scientific and not-so-scientific community. Our columnist responds.

Humanity is often at its worst and wackiest in our search for water. Peter Dykstra on a free-flowing font of bad ideas.

The 40 Bags in 40 Days challenge encourages you to tackle one area of clutter in your home each day and get rid of it responsibly.

How have Easter's ancient paganist roots manifested in this modern Christian celebration?

To broaden support for space exploration, advocates should consider approaching religious groups.

Experts are divided on the power of spirituality and an upbeat mindset.

Tsepdro is a sacred art form in Tibet. It's traditionally made during Losar, the Tibetan New Year.

These religious structures have been sitting atop cliffs and mountains for centuries now with no easy way to get to them.

The Council of Nicaea decided that Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

Artifacts uncovered at the bottom of Lake Titicaca show this religion pre-dated the Incas by 500 years.

Believe the hype: Shea butter really is a wonderful all-around health and beauty balm.

A quick trip to the backyard (or store) can yield the right plants to create healing concoctions at home.

A special sugar in these greens keeps good bacteria happy.

Three tours of duty in the Middle East convinced Air Force veteran Tim Goodrich to buy a Nissan Leaf. He loves it — and he thinks cars like it can help revers

A lawyer for energy giant Kinder Morgan recently argued that seeing the faces of unhappy pipeline protesters could constitute a form of assault.

Should working farm animals be allowed to live a peaceful retirement, or should they be slaughtered and consumed? The fate of oxen at a little farm at Green Mou

After graduating from college, Daniel Mays followed his heart back to the land and has been working to build his own small organic farm up here in Maine.