What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the ...

Within the last 200 years, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of hominins in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see laid out in this map.

The global population has continued to increase since then, even though the birth rate has fallen, largely because the world ...

This animated map shows how global populations are distributed across Earth by dividing the globe into slices covering 10% of the Earth’s population. You can see the largest cities in each slice.

A group of GeoGuessr map creators have pulled their contributions from the game to protest its participation in the Esports World Cup 2025, calling the tournament "a sportswashing tool used by the ...

A large-scale genomic study of over 1,500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and the Americas sheds new light on the ancient migrations that shaped the ...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says some of his best leadership advice is just "very basic human stuff." He said on Scott Galloway's podcast that "trust and presence" are important traits in good leaders.

Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered, human-impersonating bots on the “Change My View” subreddit. The ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 30, 2025) – The Global Flourishing Study (GFS), a multi-year collaborative research study carried out by Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, the Human ...

Inside the fanatical Reddit world — complete with cakes, cross-stitch and fan fiction — devoted to alleged killer Luigi Mangione By Rikki Schlott Published April 9, 2025, 6:00 a.m. ET ...

It’s here in the Levant that the world’s oldest human burials have been discovered, with graves at sites in what is now modern-day Israel such as Qafzeh, Skhul, Tabun, and Nesher Ramla dated ...