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 ...

Are we facing tech-stinction? An Oklahoma tech expert predicted that artificial intelligence will become so omnipresent on the planet that Earth — with a current population of about 8 billion — will ...

“In the past”, says Furkan Kayabasoglu, an obstetrician in Istanbul, “I would deliver a couple’s first baby and then their second or even a third.” These days, however, “one and done” parents are ...

Current demographic studies are based on the Malthusian principle of population, which makes a direct extrapolation of the natural law of population of the animal kingdom to the human system. This is ...