Newly sequenced Native genomes showcase a wealth of surprises, from previously unknown populations to unique high-altitude adaptations.

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Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection for U.S. population growth over the next decade by 7 million people ...

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Alaska will receive a chart-topping $272 million in the first year of the newly formed federal Rural Health Transformation ...

To address the trade-off between accuracy and cross-city generalization in traffic flow estimation, a research team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and New York University proposes a novel ...

Spears and Geruso insist that depopulation is an issue relevant not just to particular countries or cultures but to all. That focus on humanity as a whole, however, ends up erasing borders, ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists have performed genetic ...

Bad news, everyone: our cards are marked. The human species will go extinct by the year 2339, so we have just a few centuries left (at time of writing). News editor Jacob Aron shared this shattering ...

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...