Introduction"It is an unavoidable law of nature that various parts of the body decline as we age." For a long time, we have ...

Why does that person look so youthful even though we are the same age?”Have you ever wondered this after seeing a friend you ...

What if the next big target in medicine is getting older itself? Researchers are taking that possibility seriously, with new tools, new clinics, and growing FDA attention. Instead of waiting for ...

This isn’t science fiction. It’s emerging biology — and it might be the key to slowing, or even halting, the aging process ...

Mayflies live for only a day. Galapagos tortoises can reach up to age 170. The Greenland shark holds the world record at over 400 years of life. Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate and author of the ...

Scientists have sequenced his genome for the first time, hoping the world’s oldest land animal can offer clues into the ...

Geneticist Anne Brunet explores what aging really is, how lifestyle choices might influence longevity, and the promising frontiers of aging research. Aging is a process that affects us all. But how ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

A large study shows that machine-learning clocks based on speech can estimate chronological age and may also offer a window ...

A massive MRI study found that Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, psychiatric disorders, and addiction are associated with distinct patterns of accelerated brain aging. The strongest ...

As research into longevity advances, scientists are finding new ways to test a once-speculative idea: that aging itself could ...

(Hill Street Studios/Digital Vision/Getty Images) As we get older, our episodic memory – managed by the hippocampus region – gradually gets worse. That's the memory related to specific details, like ...