As the earth’s population hits 7 billion, three newly released books describe the challenges that lie ahead, each addressing relevant issues from a different perspective.

An excerpt from The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Change the World presents very optimistic hopes of unifying humanity.

As parents we want to help our children become competent decision-makers. What skills are required, and how do parents instill them?

In a world where we have many choices as to how we get our news, it’s worth pondering what the media we consume tells us about ourselves, and how it affects the things we come to believe and act on.

Knowledge of a catastrophic flood is known to be preserved in the ancient histories of 68 peoples, according to the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary.

During His ministry, Jesus quoted the book of Genesis and made mention of its content numerous times.

The whole planet is being assaulted by human beings and human activity. What's the key to our survival?

Carl Gustav Jung founded an approach he named Analytical Psychology, many tenets of which have led some to refer to him as a “founding father of the New Age.”

Life has sped up of late. Many of us are connected all the time, constantly attentive, always replying, never quiet. But is this helpful?

Wendy Freedman, director of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, spoke to Vision about the complexities of measuring the universe and of the human brain that attempts to make sense of it.

In addition to authoring a number of books, David Hulme has contributed essays to two volumes edited by Charles Pasternak, biochemist and founding director of the Oxford International Biomedical Centre.

As the UN pegs today as the date when human population passes 7 billion, we can expect increasingly strident calls to re-evaluate our planetary role.

Hippocrates has been quoted as saying, “Let food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” So what foods do qualify as health-promoting?

Mao’s Great Famine (2010) by historian Frank Dikötter chronicles the ghastly four-year period that resulted in the peacetime death of millions.

A timeline of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Is the universe accidental—now pictured as a single bubble within a cosmic foam? Or is this just a choice of belief, not an empirical conclusion?

Even before September 11, 2001, terrorism was a fact of life for much of the world. Must we accept that it will always be that way?

Psychologists and policymakers alike are trying to understand what makes a terrorist. How does one stop the assembly line?

Researchers Bella DePaulo and Robert Milardo explore the importance of collateral kin—aunts, uncles and others in extra-nuclear support systems.

A Stanford symposium titled “Connecting the Dots” looks for connections between agriculture, energy and the environment as population grows.