Open Heart

Enhanced cardiovascular disease risk prediction using integrated machine learning models: a study from the UK Biobank cohort

Objective Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain the leading cause of mortality globally, necessitating early risk identification to improve prevention and management strategies. Traditional risk ...

Here's how the population of every city and town in the region has changed since the pandemic

New census data shows which cities and towns in the Capital Region and Hudson Valley are growing or shrinking since 2019 - and what the racial makeup looks like for each municipality.

Slowing U.S. population growth could reduce GDP by $100 billion in 2026, analysis finds

A slowdown in immigration and lower birth rates could crimp the U.S. economy by shrinking the nation's workforce, researchers ...

The Black Death's counterintuitive effect: As human numbers fell, so did plant diversity

Between 1347 and 1353, Europe was gripped by the most catastrophic pandemic in its history: the Black Death. Killing many millions, the plague wiped out between one-third and a half of Europe's ...

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...
Seattle Times

WA population hit 8M in 2025, while migration to the U.S. fell

Washington state crossed a population milestone in the latest Census Bureau estimates: As of July 1, 2025, the state had 8 million residents for the first time. The population estimate, to be precise, ...
New Scientist

The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide

From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...
eLife

Contractile peri-nuclear actomyosin network repositions peripheral and polar chromosomes to promote early kinetochore–microtubule interactions

This important study demonstrates that a peri-nuclear actomyosin network, present in some types of human cells, facilitates kinetochore-spindle attachment of chromosomes in unfavorable locations - ...
Forbes

Bitcoin Has Fallen Over 50% From Its All-Time High

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Charles Lloyd Bovaird II is a financial writer focused on investments. Bitcoin prices have suffered quite a bit lately, and ...
The Columbian

Out for the count: Annual Point-in-Time Count aims to tally Clark County’s homeless population

Among those he came across was a 62-year-old woman living in a tent beside a dental office; a woman warming herself inside a McDonald’s after an eviction; and a man fanning his flickering fire with a ...
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Colorado’s population exceeds 6 million for first time ever, report says

STATEWIDE, Colo. (KKTV) - For the first time ever, the State of Colorado’s population has officially exceeded six million people, according to the Census Bureau. As of July 1, 2025, the Bureau ...