A human lifespan can last 85 years or more if they are lucky. It might seem long to humans, but when compared to the age of planet Earth, a human life would only be 141 seconds long. That is why ...
Scientists have long debated the greatest possible age of a person, with previous studies placing the limit at up to 150 years. But in the past 25 years, no one has surpassed the record for the ...
People attend the burial of a family member who died of Covid-19 at Campo da Esperanca cemetery in the Taguatinga neighborhood of Brasilia, Brazil, on September 3, 2020. ERALDO PERES/AP A year ...
PM EDT Excerpted from WHY WE DIE: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan with ...
People are living much longer today than in previous generations. This is good but carries the downside that, for most people, the longer you live the more illnesses characteristic of older age ...
The existence of menopause in humans has long been a biological conundrum, but scientists are getting a better understanding from a surprising source: whales. Findings of a new study suggest ...
Kurzweil told a keynote audience at last week's SCO6 supercomputing conference that nanobots will roam our blood streams fixing diseased or aging organs, while computers will back up our human ...
It’s a question most of us have wondered before ― if I behaved absolutely perfectly with regards to my health, what’s the absolute oldest I could live to? The oldest person ever recorded ...
In mice, a new type of immunotherapy appeared to partly turn back the clock of "immune aging." Scientists reversed some signs ...
The last total solar eclipse for North Jersey was in 1925. The next one? 154 years after that. But there are plenty of ...
We all know families of long-lived individuals. But exactly how much do genes influence longevity? A study of 2,700 Danish twins suggested that the heritability of human longevity—a quantitative ...