Woody Allen wanted to achieve immortality by not dying rather than through his work. Recently, China's General Secretary Xi ...

For most of human history, life unfolded quickly and ended abruptly. In the early 19th century, global life expectancy ...

Imagine if something as simple and free as sleeping naked could unlock longer life and better health. That is the claim that ...

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

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By that math, your typical American man would be smart to claim Social Security at age 62, the first year of his eligibility.

If you want to understand the quality of life lived by the people of any country, the measure, or most widely used standard, is the Human Development Index (HDI). It is published annually by the ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies the highest priority science objectives for the first human mission to Mars, and says searching ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Summary: A new nationwide analysis shows that getting fewer than seven hours of sleep a night is one of the strongest predictors of shorter life expectancy across U.S. counties. Sleep sufficiency ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, Homo sapiens evolved under the steady pressures of natural environments—savannas, forests, coasts, deserts, and river valleys that shaped everything from our ...

C-Span has joined YouTube TV, ending a yearslong fight by the public affairs network to secure placement on major live TV streaming services and restoring access for millions of cord-cutters who had ...