India releases Genome India database of 10,000 genomes for global research, focusing on disease study and precision medicine.

In 1918, the SS Makambo ran aground near Lord Howe Island, triggering a series of events that would change the island forever ...

Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa and the sixth globally, stands at a demographic crossroads. With a population ...

Genetic diversity in a given population can be reduced in what is ... In a study of 460 populations around the world, roughly half showed evidence of a recent founder event, researchers concluded ...

The United Nations estimates that Earth’s population passed 8 billion ... On all of these continents, human population growth along the coast followed a similar pattern: The highest ...

In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program ...

The authors found no evidence that this small early modern human population contributed to later Europeans or any other world-wide population. A narrower timeframe for the shared Neanderthal ...

Many species of animals go through mass migrations, but there’s likely no species on Earth that has migrated to more ...

Human settlement patterns have profound ... It also has 60% of the Earth's coastal population. In comparison, Africa has about 12%, Europe has 11%, North America has 9% and South America has ...

Sweden granted the lowest number of residence permits to asylum seekers and their relatives on record in 2024, a boost for ...

Earlier this year a doomsday scenario suggested billions of people will disappear from the world’s population by the end of the century. Analysis recently published shows the number of human ...

Last year, the population only increased by 0.5 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. While this is the most ...