Many significant risks facing investors; two of the primary ones are bubbles that have formed in AI-related names and in ...

While few of us today know how to start a bonfire without matches or a lighter, learning to make fire was one of the most critical developments in human history. New evidence suggests humans figured ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived in deep isolation for roughly 100,000 years and evolved genetic patterns ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists have performed genetic ...

Bad news, everyone: our cards are marked. The human species will go extinct by the year 2339, so we have just a few centuries left (at time of writing). News editor Jacob Aron shared this shattering ...

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The UN estimates that the world’s population will top out at 10.3 billion by 2080 before it enters a slow descent, ending 100 million lower by 2100.

Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), particularly in primary care. However, existing evidence on its diagnostic ...

Over the past century, the world's human population has exploded from around 2 billion to 8 billion. Meanwhile, the average fertility rate has gradually declined. And if that trend continues as it has ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

Japan's declining population in agricultural regions could be having a damaging impact on biodiversity—a trend that could spread through East Asia and Europe as global fertility rates fall—according ...