Author: Samuel Chamberlain / Source: Fox News An Iowa judge struck down a state law Tuesday banning a woman from obtaining an abortion once a fetus’ heartbeat is detected, saying it violated the state’s constitution. Judge Michael Huppert wrote that the measure was counter to “both the due

Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know? While most people are afraid of sharks, humans also seem to have a strange fasciation with them – I mean, we look forward to an entire week of television about their antics, right? If you’re a person who sets your DVR in advance, you’re

Abortion has been an emotionally-charged and divisive topic for many years and shows no signs of letting up. Central to the argument for many people is pinpointing the exact time when ‘life’ begins. Is it at conception? The first heartbeat? Brain activity? Or when the baby actually emerges from the

Author: Jordana Cepelewicz / Source: WIRED An embryo starts out as just a single cell. It’s not long before it divides into two cells, then four, then eight, and so on — a process marked by rapid growth, in which these early, unspecialized cells proliferate wildly to start building all the

Author: Laura Sanders / Source: Science News Decades ago, pregnant women had to wait about 40 weeks before knowing much about their baby. But swiftly moving technology offers increasingly detailed peeks into the womb. Beyond generating adorable 3-D ultrasounds of scrunched-up faces, researchers