Life expectancy is stalling – and the UK is officially the sick man of Europe. At a time when longevity medicine is gaining ...

From the sky, a besieged Gaza briefly came into view early Saturday as the military plane opened its back door and a mass of ...

Comparatively, fertility rates among less-than-weekly-attending Americans drops to around 1.7 and below 1.5 for nonreligious ...

New York is waging a war on multiple fronts to combat the near ubiquitous rats that plague city streets and the subways, ...

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The new law imposes additional paperwork requirements on Obamacare enrollees, slashes the time they have each year to sign up and cuts funding for navigators who help them shop for plans.

A groundbreaking dance programme for teenagers and older adults is being rolled out across secondary schools in Ireland.

This is part of a series of stories featuring master’s degree programs at the University of Chicago. For more than a century, ...

During heat waves in California, emergency rooms fill up with people. A new study explores who ends up in the ER, and how much healthcare costs will increase in the future as climate change worsens ...

Steep cuts in US government funding have thrown much of the field of global health into a state of fear and uncertainty. Once ...

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with economist and demographer Dean Spears about why he thinks depopulation isn't the answer to the global climate crisis.

Population dynamics articles from across Nature Portfolio Atom RSS Feed Population dynamics is the study of how and why populations change in size and structure over time. Important factors in ...