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Finding Aid to the AAAS Population, Resources, and Environment Program Records
Finding Aid to the AAAS Cultural Factors in Population Programs Records
Understanding human population change with Amy Ong Tsui
Five experts weigh in on today's population challenges
Science 'Population' App is Here!
AAAS Commends New R&D Budget Proposal for Agricultural Research
The president's FY2017 budget will invest $700 million in USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI).
<i>Science</i>: Global Population Won't Stabilize This Century
The world population may increase through 2100, and a new projection points to Sub-Saharan Africa as a primary engine for sustained global growth.
In a “Flattening” World, Innovation Must Be Global, S&T Leaders Say
The Journal Science Unveils New Science Population App for iPad Users

A new interactive, multimedia-enhanced iPad application from the journal Science features award-winning journalism and peer-reviewed research on global population growth and its impacts on education, health, quality of life, economics, and natural resources.

Science: Researchers Take Inventory of the World’s Information Capacity

A new study reports an inventory of the world’s technological capacity to store, communicate and compute information over the last two decades.

First, a refresher: A bit is the smallest unit of information, and a megabyte equals 8 million bits.

Now, the results: In 2007, humankind was able to store 295 trillion optimally compressed megabytes, to communicate almost 2 quadrillion megabytes, and to carry out 6.4 trillion MIPS (million instructions per second) on general-purpose computers.