Genes and chance are a big part of living to 100, but lifestyle factors can play a role.freemixer/Getty Images There's a lot that a healthy lifestyle can do for your longevity. But in old age, a big ...

Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human ...

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited her bonus years not to any high ...

If humans living for 1,000 years seems like a complete stretch, aging expert João Pedro de Magalhães will do you one better: how about humans living for 20,000 years? The professor of molecular ...

A new study finds the human brain moves through five major developmental eras, marked by key turning points from childhood to ...

Our ability to extend human lifespans is improving dramatically, but whether there is any natural limit to how far we can push is an outstanding question. New research contradicts claims that we're ...

Studying brain scans from nearly 4,000 people across the whole spectrum of human life, from newborns to 90-year-olds, a team ...

Groundbreaking research reveals that animal factory farming is not only harming animals but also reducing the average human ...

A scientist says that the human lifespan could be so short due to the dinosaurs. While that might sound a bit wild, especially since modern humans didn't live at the time that dinosaurs did, it all ...

There's a lot that a healthy lifestyle can do for your longevity. But in old age, a big part of the equation comes down to genetics. A new study suggests only a small percentage of adults will live to ...