Life at the ‘end of the world’ isn’t all looting and pillaging

Typically, end-of-the-world scenarios involve rioting, looting and chaos. Those depictions are from pop culture, though, and not based on any sort of real world data. For an idea of how an apocalyptic situation might actually play out, scientists por...

Breastfeeding Saves Indigenous Infants from Infectious Diseases


Those babies who are born in the affluent  countries of the West are healthy even if bottlefed. That is because communicable diseases have gotten wiped out. But for those infants born to...