Returning to work has been known to be difficult for new parents for a wide variety of reasons: lack of sleep, implicit biases that new parents face, finding the time and space to pump breast milk, postpartum, hormonal changes, separation anxiety and guil

On Saturday, NASA’s Artemis rocket attempts to take off for the second time from NASA's modernized Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to BBC news, the lift-off scheduled for Monday had to be scrubbed when one of four engines on the vehicle would n

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Book challenges in America aren’t new — but over the past year, they’ve reached a peak. In particular, Pennsylvania is second on a PEN America list of states with the highest number of banned books. In Pennsylvania, there are 456 bans across nine district

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black mothers in particular, disproportionately experience a number of barriers to breastfeeding. Black women have the lowest breastfeeding initiation rate of all racial groups at less than 70 p

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