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A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

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The world's population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the ...

Objective To assess short-term differences in population mental health before and after the 2008 recession and explore how and why these changes differ by gender, age and socio-economic position.

Objective To determine whether new users of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are at an increased risk of gastric cancer compared with new users of histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs). Design Using ...

Variability measures how widely a set of values is distributed around their mean. Here's how to measure variability and how investors use it to choose assets.

Effective and noninvasive whale and biodiversity monitoring is now possible with the help of citizen scientists, opening up new opportunities for marine conservation. Water samples collected during ...

Birthright citizenship ruling handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. How many people gain citizenship this way?

Pew Research Center’s team of demographers, economists and other analysts accesses and uses a wide variety of publicly available data sources to conduct its population research. Much of this data is ...

University of Queensland researchers are surveying the population of White's Seahorse in the south-east. (Supplied: Rown Carew) ...