That’s the premise behind one of Pop Mech ’s most eye-popping recent stories, “ Oops, Scientists May Have Severely ...

New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the ...

The CEO of Jio Platforms Ltd., which is part of the Indian Reliance Group, is going to talk to us about the experiences that Jio Platforms is having. Mr. Mat ...

From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...

It’s often assumed that lower birthrates could help slow climate change and A.I. disruption. The reality is more complex. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. One statistic that stopped me ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While most estimates place the current human ...

(NEXSTAR) – The U.S. saw a year of slow population growth between 2024 and 2025, but not every state is feeling the same slowdown, newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show. Nationally ...

New census estimates show the effects of falling birthrates and President Trump’s anti-immigration policies. As his term continues, immigration is expected to drop even further. By Jeff Adelson and ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ancestors of Neandertals, Denisovans and modern humans. “We can say that the ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

In 1980, the economist Julian Simon took to the pages of Social Science Quarterly to place a bet against his intellectual rival, the biologist Paul Ehrlich. The Population Bomb, Ehrlich’s 1968 ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...