Researchers from Aalborg University are involved in an international project to develop portable robot skeletons for the elderly so they can continue to be active longer. Think of it as a to... Read more
Worldwide, life expectancy of older people continues to rise. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 60 years and older will outnumber children younger than 5 year... Read more
Water is used around the world for the production of electricity, but new research results show that there will not be enough water in the world to meet demand by 2040 if the energy and powe... Read more
New discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals and pests, increase salt and drought tolerance, control water loss a... Read more
“Providing enough food to prevent starvation and famine certainly will be a daunting problem.” Mention great challenges in feeding a soaring world population, and thoughts turn to prov... Read more
To make a world that can support all the people that want to live on it and use its resources, we need businesses to take a strong role in finding new ways to account for more than ju... Read more
To keep a growing world population filled with nutrients, startups like Beyond Eggs are finding new ways of making protein that don’t involve the resource intensity of raising animals. Here... Read more
“People and the Planet” During the 352-year life span of the Royal Society, the human population has risen from less than one billion people to seven billion and counting. That boom has been... Read more
Rapid population growth in the developing world will place tremendous demands on resources Rapid population growth in the developing world will place tremendous demands on resources, while t... Read more
Explosive Population Growth Means Challenges for Developing Nations Global population is expected to hit 7 billion later this year, up from 6 billion in 1999. Between now and 2050, an estima... Read more