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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Humans may have already reached peak life span, new research suggests. Researchers found that since 1990, ...

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 ...

New research finds that humankind's once-steady rise in life expectancy is slowing down, raising the question of whether we'll be able to expand our lifespan much further. Reading time 4 minutes Our ...

According to Nature.com, scientists identified four major topological turning points across a lifespan: around 9 years old, ...

Humanity's once-steady rise in life expectancy is now slowing down, raising the question of whether we're about to reach the ceiling of our longevity. Reading time 8 minutes It’s an inevitable fact of ...

There is no scientific consensus on the fundamental question whether the probability distribution of the human life span has a finite endpoint or not and, if so, whether this upper limit changes over ...

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

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 ...

While the human life span has increased markedly since the 19th century, new research shows that despite recent advancements in medicine, we may have reached our longevity peak—and most of today’s ...

We are, collectively speaking, living longer than ever before. Life expectancy in the US shot up at a rate of about three ...