Newborn stars shine like celestial sparklers in a new portrait of the nearby Triangulum Galaxy – the most detailed ultraviolet image of a galaxy ever taken. Astronomers will use the image, taken by NASA's Swift telescope, to create an "age map" of the galaxy's components to understand how galaxies evolve over time. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Joanne Mackie, 28, developed agonising blisters and an excruciating rash shortly after giving birth to son James. The painful welts across her back, legs, arms and chest caused her so much pain that she could not hold the newborn, and was forced to cover her arms in muslin cloth. picked by kakana 4 months ago

The moment a mother humpback whale gently helps her newborn calf to take its very first breath has been captured on camera.

The rare event is described as the 'Holy Grail' for whale-watchers. Marine scientists said they watched in astonishment as the mother swam beneath the distressed baby and lifted it above the water, clearing its blowhole to take in air. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Canadian police are searching for a woman who abandoned her newborn baby in the washroom of a Wal-Mart store in the prairie province of Saskatchewan. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

A New Zealand man has been jailed for seven years for sexually assaulting his 15-day-old son. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Mother survives leap from the moving train to rescue her infant! picked by tigertony 2 months ago

Kansas City police are investigating a 20-year-old woman who allegedly tried to flush her newborn son down the toilet at a McDonald's restaurant. picked by titojuante 2 years ago

The woman and her child are in the hospital, but the baby was found an hour later in the bathroom... picked by Ankabout 8 months ago

A horrible error resulted in as many as 17 infants receiving up to 100 times the proper dose of Heparin, a blood thinner. This is the same drug that a LA hospital accidentally overdosed Dennis Quaid's children. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

"I can forgive her, but I can never forget," said her mother, Louise Dopeforbrains." picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Port Angeles police believe the baby was killed after being born Tuesday to a 16-year-old girl. Investigators believe the body was put in garbage that was picked up Wednesday. picked by muppet 11 months ago

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg have discovered the youngest known extrasolar planet. Its host star is still surrounded by the disk of gas and dust from which it was only recently born. This discovery allows scientists to draw important conclusions about the timing of planet formation. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Yup, Florida. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

A woman who became pregnant to her secret lover told an inquest she didn't know she had given birth to their child until she saw his foot in the toilet bowl. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Taking care of the baby—physical, draining, exhilarating—is more like farming: following the rhythms of the earth, getting up at dawn, watching the corn flush in the sunrise. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

It's probably the ultimate survival story. A child is born prematurely, slips through the toilet bowl of a running train, crash lands onto the tracks. The entire train passes over her, but she is alive and is now sleeping peacefully at the Rajasthan Hospital in Ahmedabad. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

With fierce pride Gana the gorilla gently cradles her tiny baby. Her powerful forearm presses the wrinkly, virtually hairless child to her chest.

Her visible joy is in marked contrast to the grief she demonstrated last year on losing her baby Claudio. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

So she could catch her flight back home. picked by suebe 11 months ago

i'm super critical of modern music but i love Muse and hope to see them live Aug. 6th at MSG. i need a babysitter picked by kikcolon 2 years ago

Perhaps the first stars in the newborn universe did not shine, but instead were invisible “dark stars” 400 to 200,000 times wider than the sun and powered by the annihilation of mysterious dark matter. The study calculated how the birth of the first stars almost 13 billion years ago might have been influenced by the presence of dark matter – the unseen, yet-unidentified stuff tha... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago