Kids missed out on learning to swim during pandemic, widening racial and ethnic disparities

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Nearly three out of four kids in Chicago had no swimming lessons in the summer of 2022, with significant racial and ethnic differences, according to a

The collapse of bat populations led to more than a thousand infant deaths

Bats are considered a natural pesticide, widely relied on by farmers as an alternative to chemical pesticides to protect their crops from insects. But since 2006, many bat populations have

Large-scale study of children with genetic disorders finds huge benefits of diagnosis

Summary of diagnosed DDD probands per center. Number of diagnosed Deciphering Developmental Disorders probands included in study (left) and percentage with interventions (treatment or testing; right) separated by the 24