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 ...

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 ...

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.
AOL

Python Nicknamed 'The Baroness' Breaks Record for World's Longest Snake with Over 23 Feet of Scales

An over 23-foot python has been named the world's longest wild snake. On Wednesday, Feb. 4, Guinness World Records announced that a wild reticulated python named Idu Baron (The Baroness), measuring ...

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

Scientists studying data collected over more than three decades found accelerating losses. Their research offers clues about the causes.

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 ...
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 - ...
Newsweek

Shrinking US Birth Rate Could Cost Economy $100 Billion

A new report has warned that the United States’ waning birth rate and slowing population growth could result in a major hit to its overall economic competitiveness. However, newer data showing a ...
The Verge

Spotify finished 2025 on a high note.

In its Q4 earnings report, the audio streaming service said it’s gained 38 million monthly active users (MAU) and nine million paying subscribers since its last quarter. Spotify now has 751 million ...
Grist

What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. Michigan researchers have gone back in time to get a picture of how ice cover on ...
Columbus Dispatch

Too many deer, too few hunters? Questions over Ohio's deer population

Results of the 2025-26 deer season released by the Ohio Division of Wildlife last week certainly inform, although the numbers add up to more than the simple, six-digit sum on a spreadsheet. The ...