With his own research group and as a professor at Queens College, he plumbed raw data for often-surprising insights about the way the country was changing.

This delimitation issue has stirred strong emotions in the South. You have MK Stalin telling people to make more babies’, ...

The freeze on expanding and reallocating Lok Sabha seats has distorted constitutional provisions and the democratic principle ...

Residents of a small Michigan community stood side by side to help a local bookstore move 9,100 books — one by one — from its former site to a new location about a block away.

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

As the global population grows, it will not do so equally everywhere. This map explores population growth—and decline.

The population fell for the 14th straight year and marked the largest fall on record since the government began collecting comparable data in 1950. The number of people aged 75 or above grew by ...

New data released this week reaffirmed a seemingly paradoxical reality of the post- Roe v. Wade era: Abortion rates have ...

Population ecology is the study of how populations ... Dary, D. A. The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga of the American Animal. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1989. Elton, C. Periodic fluctuations ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...

These data highlight the role of hydrogen dynamics in defining exotic ice phases and could have implications for the geodynamics of icy planets.