9 November 2022
The number of people on the planet has hit a huge milestone at 8 billion, but fertility rates are falling fast in many countries, which means planning for an older population
24 February 2021
Proto-cities built from 6200 years ago in eastern Europe upend our ideas about when civilisation began and why people made the move from rural to urban living
9 December 2020
It’s easy to be disheartened by the puniness of our existence – yet perhaps for the first time in human history, everything depends on decisions each one of us makes
2 June 2020
In her recent book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini examines what she calls the “subtle” return of race within mainstream science.
2 December 2019
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees makes some predictions on humanity's future, and calls for coordinated global action to ward off threats from biotech, cyber technologies and advanced AI
10 October 2019
New Scientist readers are more knowledgeable than the general public and experts on the state of the world, but still score worse than monkeys would on some questions
21 August 2019
A Chinese government policy allowing all couples to have two children led to an additional 5.4 million births in the first 18 months after it took effect
21 May 2019
The average age is rising around the world - a demographic shift that could pose a significant challenge to efforts to rein in emissions and climate change
16 January 2019
We used to think the Amazon rainforest was virtually untouched, but it now seems to have been filled with sprawling settlements whose inhabitants shaped the land
22 November 2017
In a pressured world, we need to understand that how demographic trends affect people depends on where they live, says Massimo Livi Bacci in Our Shrinking Planet
