If the sound of a baby crying gets you red in the face, you're not just imagining things. A new study has found that an infant's cries – particularly those that signal pain – really do trigger a hot ...

The sound slices through the quiet of the night: a muffled sob, then a hiccup, quickly escalating into a high-pitched, frantic wail. For any parent or caregiver, this is a familiar, urgent call to ...

Few sounds rattle a parent faster than a baby screaming at full volume in a car seat. The crying often starts the moment the ...

From soft, coo-like whimpers to heartbreaking sobs, a baby's cries can evoke strong emotions, and yet the reasons for crying can remain mysterious. But now, a new tool for analyzing the sound of a ...

As any new parent will quickly confirm, the sound of a crying baby can communicate a multitude of things, from "I'm hungry" to "I'm in pain." A team at UCLA has now developed an innovative app that ...

You know when your baby is happy because they coo at you. When your baby is unhappy, they let you know with a loud wail. You may have even noticed that your baby’s cry sounds different from time to ...

Look who’s talking indeed. Developers of a new app from Taiwan called “Infant Cries Translator” claim that it can translate the myriad crying sounds made by babies. Researchers at the National Taiwan ...

An app that can differentiate between a variety of crying sounds made by babies has been developed by Taiwanese researchers. The Infant Cries Translator was developed at the National Taiwan University ...

In defense of the Naval Jacksonville Hospital nurses who were recently fired for posting inappropriate images of themselves with newborns, anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes around infants can ...

Here I am, fresh off of my second maternity leave ready to serve up lots of juicy fresh science about babies. And I would love to do that, if only I were sleeping more at night. With her intoxicating ...