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Couple Busted
After 8 Dead
Newborns
Found

Jul 29, 2010 6:41 AM CDT

Couple Busted After 8 Dead Newborns Found

French parents seemed utterly 'pleasant'

(Newser) - A couple in a northern French village have been arrested after police uncovered the remains of eight newborns in their home and nearby. A neighbor alerted cops after spotting bones as he dug a pond in his yard at a home where the two used to live. The couple, both...

Newborns
Learn in
Their Sleep

May 19, 2010 5:05 AM CDT

Newborns Learn in Their Sleep

Dozing babes better 'data sponges' than adults

(Newser) - Babies start absorbing information about the world around them as soon as they're out of the womb and they do so even in their sleep, according to new research. Scientists played a tune to 26 sleeping newborns and followed it up with a puff of air to the eyelids. Most...

Twins Born Seconds Apart,
in Different Decades

Jan 2, 2010 12:21 PM CST

Twins Born Seconds Apart, in Different Decades

Florida brothers come into the world near stroke of midnight

(Newser) - A weird quirk of the calendar in a Tampa delivery room: Marcello Velasco was born at 11:59:37pm on New Year's Eve, and his identical brother, Stephano, arrived at 12:00:02. Which means that not only do they have different birthdays, but they arrived in different years and...

Quaids Settle for $750K
in Babies' Overdose

Dec 15, 2008 8:00 PM CST

Quaids Settle for $750K in Babies' Overdose

(Newser) - Dennis Quaid and his wife have settled for $750,000 with a Los Angeles hospital that accidentally overdosed their newborns on a blood-thinning drug last year, People reports. The twins, who fought for their lives after receiving Heparin, are now in good health, giving the story what Quaid called a...