British-US scientist John O’Keefe and married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser from Norway have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the brain’s “inner GPS”. The “place cells” and “grid cells” they discovered make it possible for our brains to work out where we are . The

There’s a commonly held assumption that a pregnant woman’s immune system fades into a weak shell of its former self to keep from attacking the growing fetus. According to the pregnancy advice website What to Expect, “Your immune system runs at low speed when you’re pregnant.” Baby Center agrees.

Earlier this month, a star running back for the Minnesota Vikings was indicted for whipping his young son bloody with a switch. Leaked photographs allegedly showed Adrian Peterson’s 4-year-old son with cuts and bruises on his legs, back, buttocks and scrotum. As details about the incident emerged,

In one of my earliest memories, I’m wiggling around on the kitchen floor of my childhood home. My mom had just dropped a bunch of oranges for my brother and me to bang around, maybe to loosen them up for juicing. We scramble and grab the oranges, throwing them against the floor with glee. I don’t