“This gap is especially limiting in longevity research, where admixed supercentenarians may harbor unique protective variants ...

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make ...

Kellenberger, who spent 41 years teaching middle school in Carson City, Mich., said she’d dreamed of hiking the 14-state ...

Brazilian research team investigates protective factors in extraordinary people who survived COVID-19 without vaccines and ...

Scientists are uncovering why Brazil may be one of the most important yet underused resources for studying extreme longevity.

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

A modern analysis of 7-million-year-old remains suggest this mysterious ancient primate is the oldest human ancestor ever found.

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

A Viewpoint published in Genomic Psychiatry by Dr. Mayana Zatz and colleagues at the Human Genome and Stem Cell Research ...

There's no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a ...

The discovery of a Neanderthal fire pit in southeastern England has revealed that fire was made by humans at least 400,000 years ago. Previously, it was thought that humans had begun to make fire only ...

In 2006, scientists made an extraordinary discovery off the coast of Iceland: a clam that was over 500 years old. This remarkable creature, later named Ming, became the oldest individual animal ever ...