In the rugged landscapes of Papua New Guinea—where more than 800 languages echo across valleys and coasts—a remarkable discovery has brought new clarity to one of humanity’s greatest migrations. In a new study, researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have recovered the first ancient genomes (aDNA) from Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago—unlocking genetic insights from a region as culturally rich as it is historically pivotal.

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A research team from the Urban and Transportation Systems Laboratory, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, conducted research on the impact of digital services alternative usage on equity and sustainability in cities. The study reveals how the use of digital services, such as online shopping and remote work, interacts with social networks and demographics to affect residential location choice and urban structure. The results of this research were published in the international academic journal "Sustainability".

A new study co-authored by Professor Guy Abel of the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong, alongside researchers from Meta and Harvard University, introduces a groundbreaking approach to measuring international migration. Published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the research leverages online data to provide the most comprehensive and timely estimates of global migration flows to date.