Population

Study reinterprets Gompertz mortality parameters, showing lifespan extensions reflect expanded decrepitude rather than slowed biological ageing in C. elegans.

Study examines whether wombats isolated from dingoes for 80 years have lost predator recognition, finding they retain discrimination but show reduced environmental vigilance.

Genetic dissection of yield traits and heat tolerance in wheat using a MAGIC population identifies SNPs and major loci informing heat-resilient breeding strategies.

Population-based cohort study comparing neurodevelopmental outcomes in children prenatally exposed to buprenorphine versus methadone for maternal opioid use disorder treatment.

Framework for testing conditional and unconditional independence between binary graphs using community correlations and graph encoder embeddings.

Framework proposing anthropogenic power generation and energy balance as factors in climate change, with industrial efficiency improvements as mitigation strategy

Pilot study reveals that mental health awareness does not predict help-seeking behavior; improving literacy requires addressing role clarity and normalization.

Ancient DNA analysis of 15,836 West Eurasian genomes reveals pervasive directional selection across hundreds of alleles over the past ten millennia, with measured effects on complex traits.

Pilot study of SIMG, a web-based pregnancy monitoring system in Brazil, reveals marginal usability and suboptimal uptake despite high willingness to use the tool in future pregnancies.

Analysis of 35 years of bird survey data reveals population declines are accelerating in agricultural hotspots across North America, affecting nearly half of monitored species.

Historical study of Sudan's place names, revealing how external observers dominated toponymic practices while local naming traditions were lost or marginalized in regional historiography.

Genetic analysis of 132 ancient genomes from Paris Basin reveals population discontinuity during Neolithic decline, with disease and environmental change driving northward ancestry shift around.

Peru faces extreme hydrological asymmetry with 66% of population in water-scarce Pacific basin but only 2% of renewable resources. Analysis reveals governance gaps, unsustainable groundwater.

Study of 505 nursing students reveals moderate positive correlation between academic writing competency and academic literacy, with most lacking prior writing training.

Integrated population modeling of red foxes shows harvest alone cannot suppress populations when compensatory immigration buffers mortality, with implications for mesopredator management.

Analysis of gravitational-wave data reveals that merging black holes predominantly exhibit near-perpendicular spin orientations, suggesting most form in triple-star systems.