A human baby arrives in the world in a strange state, eyes open, ears working, brain growing fast, yet unable to move through ...

The 2025 United Nations (UN) Human Development Report published earlier this month reveals an unprecedented slowdown on the Human Development Indices (HDI) in all regions of the world, along with ...

Johns Hopkins and other BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) researchers have enhanced a cellular road map of how the brain forms and adapts early in life by bringing together genetic ...

Why are human babies so helpless? Researchers explore the evolutionary purpose of infant dependency. Learn how the gap between sensory and motor skills in infants fosters human social intelligence and ...

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), rhetorically oversold as the “U.S. Church’s anti-poverty program” — Do no other such programs exist? — was an interesting idea in its time. That ...

What do the earliest stages of a pregnancy look like? Embryonic development has been extensively studied, but most of our knowledge of the earliest stages of a growing baby come from stationary ...

"Everyone needs a Katia in their pocket," Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s newly appointed CEO of Applications, wrote recently about her transformative relationship with her human business coach, Katia. Simo’s ...

As technology ventures deeper into realms once reserved for science fiction, Clone Robotics is operating at the leading edge of an emerging and, some might say, provocative field: synthetic human ...

Our communities thrive because of the dedicated, passionate leaders who work with local organizations, aging adults and families. You could be one of them! UW’s human development and family sciences ...