This week on LSCDS #ScienceNews and #Innovation, the UN predicts that the world population will reach 9.7 billion by the year 2050, with sub Saharan Africa accounting for more than half of the global population growth. [...]

This week on LSCDS #ScienceNews and #Innovation, the International Space Station (ISS) will soon be open for business. Looking to develop a “low-Earth orbit economy”, NASA has announced its plans to avail the ISS to [...]

This week on LSCDS #ScienceNews and #Innovation, the Trump administration halts fetal-tissue research, which may have widespread implications for studies looking to find the cure to HIV. Meanwhile, Forbes features the CDC's new warning of [...]

This week on LSCDS #ScienceNews, reports have surfaced claiming an unusual increase in emissions of an ozone-destroying gas in China. Production of this chemical, CFC-11, may be in violation of international law. Read more here. [...]

Today, for our weekly LSCDS feature of #ScienceNews and #Innovation, a new study finds no evidence for a “depression gene,” that has been long thought to influence risk of depression. And, an antibiotic-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus infection in [...]