Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

A large proportion of East Asian people carry unique versions of the lactase gene that enables humans to digest the sugars in ...

How shared backgrounds among policy elites powered the economic rise of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

Genetic differentiation between East Asians and Europeans at the 2q21.3 locus. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2404393122 ...

As a scholar of East Asian Buddhism who studies how and why deities transform over time, I see the Laughing Buddha as a key figure that shows how people have adapted Buddhism to different cultural ...

Asian American. APA. APIDA. AAPI. AANHPI. There are a lot of terms and acronyms to describe this population of more than 24 million people with roots in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian ...

East Asian people are more likely to develop a more aggressive type of stomach cancer because of their higher likelihood of alcohol intolerance, according to a new study led by researchers in Japan.