Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

The seventh edition of the Global Outlook (GEO-7) offers a stark vision of the decades to come. But its authors say the worst forecasts can still be avoided if countries quickly take meaningful steps ...

Decisions made today will have stark consequences in 25 years. A panel of experts offer their predictions on politics, health ...

Since the dawn of the antibiotic age, opportunistic pathogens have evolved defenses faster than humans can develop drugs to combat them. At the same time, humans have unwittingly given the bugs an ...

In its projections for 2050, the 11th edition of the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas has calculated that ...

Disease epidemics transmitted from animals to humans could kill at least 12 times more people in 2050 than they did in 2020, according to a recently published study. These zoonotic diseases are known ...

Superbugs that are increasingly resistant to infections could kill up to 40 million people between now and 2050, according to new research published in the journal The Lancet. During that time period, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that ...