Since 1805, the number of humans on Earth has skyrocketed from one billion to eight billion. Zoomed out, the growth appears positively parabolic. For everyone alive today, the present population boom ...

The world’s population is expected to shrink in the second half of the 21st century, according to researchers. The research, which is published in The Lancet medical journal, forecasts mortality, ...

On October 3, 2018, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) held a half-day joint symposium Population Health ...

Earth's population currently sits at 8.3 billion people – but it could crash within the next 40 years, experts have warned. Scientists say that, in a worst–case scenario, humanity could potentially be ...

Cities are often seen as hotspots of violence, with the assumption that larger cities are inherently more violent than smaller ones. This "universal law" of urban scaling has long shaped scientific ...

A new population genetics model could explain why the genetic composition of Finnish people is so different from that of other European populations. Researchers discovered a previously unknown ...

The microbiome is now considered our ‘second genome’ with potentially comparable importance to the genome in determining human health. There is, however, a relatively limited understanding of the ...