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In a milestone for humanity, the World Health Organization has officially announced the global eradication of wild poliovirus type 3. One strain of the virus remains, with small numbers of cases continuing to be reported in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The latest global population report from the UN estimates the world's population will peak at 10.9 billion by the end of the century. The vast majority of population growth is expected to come from sub-Saharan Africa, with declining population growth predicted in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Preliminary measles surveillance data released by the WHO has revealed a stark surge in global cases over the first three months of 2019. The data indicates measles cases are 300 percent higher than at the same time in 2018, with major outbreaks currently occurring in a dozen different countries.

The annual Global Burden of Disease study is a giant peer-reviewed assessment of global health trends. The results this year, published across a series of articles in The Lancet, present some concerning trends, from a worrying plateau in global mortality rates to a decline in global fertility rates.

On its third attempt, NASA has successfully launched its Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket. The orbiter is designed to take high resolution moisture maps on a global scale, mapping the entire planet in the space of only two to three days.

NASA has created a "Global Selfie" photomosaic comprised of over 36,000 individual photographs taken on or around April 22, 2014, also known as Earth Day. Users can scan and zoom to view the individual photos that make up the 3.2-gigapixel image.

A new "culturomics" research project has used a supercomputer to examine a dataset made up of a quarter-century of worldwide news coverage to forecast and visualize human behavior.

During the first decade of the 21st century, information and communication technologies came within reach of most of the world's people.

The Zero Race is a race to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days in zero emission, electric powered cars that aims to harness public interest and inspire new ways of thinking about mobility, cars and renewable energy solutions.

The SMOS is the first ever satellite designed both to map sea surface salinity and to monitor soil moisture on a global scale and the unique radiometer it carries will play a key role in the monitoring of climate change on a global scale.

Verizon announces the release of another USB modem, the UMW190

An Indiana University scientist is predicts that “reality mining” will provide the means to accurately forecast the effects of phenomena like catastrophic events, mass population movements or invasions of new organisms into ecosystems.