Discovered: Video games can help dyslexic kids read; pregnancy increases foot size; around 100 million sharks are killed annually; mammalian sperm swims upstream.
Discovered: Wizard-like scientists make objects invisible; death is close when chromosome tips are worn down; pregnant women who contract flus are more likely to have autistic babies; prosthetic skin that heals itself.
Discovered: Space, brought to you in 3D; thin diabetics worse off than overweight ones; for some women, giving birth is a traumatic event; Nipah virus can be prevented in monkeys.
Women tend to be less fertile as they get older, but how much, exactly? Math nerd Richie Cotton at 4dpiecharts.com decided to figure it out with a chart.
Over a third of women giving birth in the U.S. are having babies they did not plan to have.
Data released by the World Health Organization brings a new topic to the table of the standard baby conversation in the U.S.A.
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