overpopulation

The notion that we’re headed towards some kind of populational apocalypse—that there exists a line which, once…

I expected Avengers: Infinity War to be very fun. I did not expect Thanos, the film’s central villain, to be a…

Kind of! At least if we’re to take Kurzgesagt’s word for it. Lets do a little recap on how birthrates work.

China is scrapping its one-child policy and officially allowing all couples to have two children. While some may…

China is to scrap its one-child policy, first implemented in 1979, according to reports from the state-run new…

In the late 1960s a biologist named Paul Ehrlich insisted that the world’s rapid population growth was…

A new study concludes that strict fertility measures, such as a one-child policy, or even a mass catastrophe like a…

Now that Ebola is ravaging parts of West Africa, a nasty meme is once again rearing its ugly head — the suggestion…

The 1970s was a tough decade for America. As we saw in the second episode of paleofuture.tv, many people were…

By the end of this year, the human population is expected to reach seven billion people, just twelve years after we…

New research shows that constant exposure to low light levels compromises the immune system of the nocturnal…

A one-in-200 chance that an interstellar drive will be developed soon? Gene Wolfe thinks it's possible. The author…

Somehow, John Brunner's 1969 Hugo winner has fallen out of print. That's a terrific shame, because Stand on Zanzibar…

A team of scientists at Cal-Tech think they might have found a way to save the planet from global warming: breed…

It is astonishing how many predictions of the early 20th century assumed animals (that is, all animals) would…

This illustration by Grant E. Hamilton ran in the February 16, 1895 issue of Judge magazine and can be found in the…

Walt Disney opens the Disneyland TV program Mars and Beyond by asking, "Will we find planets with only a low form of…