Humans are already living longer than in past generations, according to global statistics. In the U.S., life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024, marking an all-time high, according to CDC data, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A molecular biogerontology professor believes we’ve only started to move toward holding off aging, and that humans will eventually ...

Having a long and healthy life is a goal for most people. Many of us want to achieve our dreams, travel, retire leisurely, and watch our children grow up — if we choose to have some. However, life is ...

People could soon live to 150 years as breakthroughs in biological clocks and rejuvenation research stretch human lifespans to new highs, one expert predicted. Geneticist Steve Horvath told Time that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.