The Financial Times

Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10mn

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Switzerland will hold a vote on a radical proposal to cap the country’s population at 10mn people, a move that ...
CBC.ca

P.E.I.'s aging population puts an economic burden on younger Islanders, advocates say

Statistics Canada projects the share of Charlottetown's population under the age of 40 will drop by about 10 per cent by 2049 — a figure that has some advocates raising concerns. Immigration policy ...
CNN

Epstein paid for novel genetic testing in apparent effort to explore extending life, new emails show

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for regenerative medicine – which is aimed at repairing the body by developing ...
Phys.org

Global population living with extreme heat expected to double by 2050

A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above ...
Alaska Public Media

Alaska population rises slightly, but more people continue to move out than move in

Alaska’s population rose slightly between 2024 and 2025 and is now at its highest level since 2017, the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced Wednesday. Alaska had an ...
ABC7

CA projected to lose congressional seats after 2030 due to slow population growth, data shows

SAN FRANCISCO -- Newly released data from the Census Bureau points to big shifts in state representation in the House after the 2030 Census, showing a projected loss of four seats for California due ...
NBC News

Genetics play a larger part in lifespan than previously thought

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Using data from human twin studies, an ...
Los Angeles Times

Foreign-born population falls by 1.5 million amid Trump policies. California economy under threat

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California’s population growth stalled from mid-2024 to mid-2025, marking the first essentially flat growth after ...
The New York Times

Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Genome

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...
The Hill

The states growing – and shrinking – the fastest, according to Census estimates

(NEXSTAR) – The U.S. saw a year of slow population growth between 2024 and 2025, but not every state is feeling the same slowdown, newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show. Nationally ...