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Migration Studies
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"One of the ways you can see the Roman Empire is it's the worldwide web of its day."
Migration statistics should be regarded with wariness as they are difficult to analyze properly and easily manipulated for political gain.
In 8,000-mile journey, a male humpback ditches Colombia for Tanzania — however, scientists don’t know why he made the trip.
The hidden story behind Greek surnames and how they trace family origins across the country — starting with the name of a would-be U.S. president.
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The winners of the remote work boom? Utah, Arizona, and Maine. Here’s what the US’ post-pandemic migration looks like.
In popular culture, the eruption is usually depicted as an apocalyptic event.
A new method of mapping migration factors in erratic movements and changing climate.
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.
Economics and religion help to explain the gap.
In Georgia, it's becoming less common to pronounce words like "prize" as "prahz."
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Throw away your history books — here’s what life in ancient Rome was really like, according to Cambridge scholar Mary Beard.
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
Tumor cells traverse many different types of fluids as they travel through the body.
For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Advances in ancient DNA analysis gave researchers a new way to trace the movements of peoples across Eurasia.
Explore the key highlights from the UN’s latest release of its world population estimates.
Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.
In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”
The simulation gave researchers some of the first concrete data linking climate change to human evolution and speciation.
Archaic humans ventured into Eurasia in waves, not always successfully. They may have started their journey in North Africa or West Asia.
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.
A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the "Out of Africa" dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.
France is split in two by its very own "desert," the Empty Diagonal. The area’s depopulation is fairly recent, and Paris is to blame.