image: Computer scientists from the University of East Anglia are working to create a virtual birthing simulator that will help doctors and midwives prepare for unusual or dangerous births. The new ...

Childbirth in humans is much more complex and painful than in great apes. It was long believed that this was a result of humans’ larger brains and the narrow dimensions of the mother’s pelvis.

CLOQUET, Minn. -- Virginia is lying on her back in a hospital gown, about to have her second baby. “She’s 39 weeks pregnant,” explains Melissa Seibert, inpatient services director at Cloquet Community ...