In this episode, Tom Goodwin talks to Greg Clark, an expert on sustainable urban transition.  Today, around 4.4 billion ...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that apparently 930,000 years ago, our ancestors were down to an astonishingly small ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

and human population growth (e.g., how fast will the human population grow, and what does that mean for climate change, resource use, and biodiversity?). Studying population growth also helps ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

The third and largest wave began in 1800 with the harnessing of fossil fuels. With enormous, cheap energy at its disposal, the human population grew rapidly from 1 billion in 1800 to 2 billion in 1930 ...

Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population, in concert with long-term environmental change. The typical rate of extinction differs for different groups of organisms.

Its primary objective: to make an inventory of all possible polymorphisms in the human population and associate them with diseases. However, the technology to take on such a project would not be ...

circulate continuously in the human population. Human coronavirus NL63 (HCoV-NL63) was first isolated from the aspirate from a 7-month-old baby in early 2004. Infection with HCoV-NL63 has since ...

According to a Russian state media report, Putin compared the SpaceX CEO to late Soviet rocket scientist and trailblazer Sergei Korolev.

A group of Brazilian researchers has, for the first time in the entire Atlantic Rainforest, estimated the population density ...