A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

* Over 8 billion people live on Earth today, with the next billion coming fast * Fertility rates are declining in 60+ countries, while Africa drives future growth * Urbanization, //aging, and climate ...

Five countries are expected to contribute more than 60% of the world’s population growth by 2100: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Tanzania. Nigeria and Ethiopia are ...

What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the ...

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for the majority of countries, new analysis shows.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

By Surv. Prof. Forster SARPONGIn the midst of Ghana’s determined effort to exit one of the most turbulent economic crises in its Fourth Republic history, a wave of renewed hope has been sparked by the ...