Women who are obese during pregnancy are putting their child at risk of birth defects such as spina bifida, heart defects, cleft palate, brain defects and gastrointestinal defects, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. To assess the relationship between maternal overweight and obesity and the risk of congenital […]
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Physicists Mull Big Bang Detritus
Physicists from the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) and the University of Cambridge may have discovered an example of a cosmic defect, a remnant from the Big Bang called a “texture”. Reported in Science, the discovery could provide dramatic new insights into how the universe evolved following the Big Bang. Professor Neil Turok of […]