The latest death data for the U.S. are in, and they paint an optimistic picture: The average American born in 2024 is now ...

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New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

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Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

U.S. life expectancy has hit the highest mark in American history. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday ...

People in the United States can expect to live longer than ever, as death rates returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2024.

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...