Babies can distinguish between, and begin to learn, two languages with vastly different grammatical structures at just seven months old, say scientists.
At just a few hours old, babies can tell the difference between their native language and a foreign one, showing that they start learning to distinguish the sounds of speech while still in the womb.
Britain's Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has today launched a public consultation over new IVF techniques that produce embryos which carry DNA from three people.
Now, here's a nice little wheeze. You want to make a fabulously generous offer as part of a marketing push, but you don't want to have to give any money away for at least another eighteen years.
Pregnant women who live near a cell phone mast are no more likely to have a baby that later develops cancer, says a study in the British Medical Journal.
