Life expectancy is rising, and longevity experts say humans could live far longer. New aging research explores how science ...

Will a human ever celebrate a 150th birthday? You bet, says Stephen Austad, a biology of ageing researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Austad is so sure that life expectancy is poised ...

Humans are living longer around the world. While there have been obvious ups and downs, life expectancy at birth overall has been steadily increasing for many years. It has more than doubled in the ...

A new research paper focuses on why so many people in Brazil live extremely long lives, although there doesn't seem to be a ...

Over the course of our long, complicated evolutionary history, humans have seen our brains triple in size, now weighing in at roughly three pounds on average. At some point along the way, humans ...

Most people live within reach of stores, the internet, and public roads. But that’s not true everywhere. In some parts of the world, isolation profoundly affects nearly every aspect of daily life.

People in certain corners of the world consistently live into their 90s and 100s without the usual barrage of age-related ...