New research has revealed an unexpected reality about human longevity, despite significant medical advancements, lifespan increases have slowed dramatically. The study shows that, since 1990, average ...

There’s no question that prehistoric hominins had it tougher than we do today, with the dangers of big-game hunting and a lack of modern healthcare stacking the odds of survival against them. It’s ...

During the military parade celebrations in Beijing on September 3, 2025, China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin were overheard talking about the prospects of organ ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Researchers are now suggesting that male and female lifespans continue to increase linearly, and have not ...

A group of old men playing cards in a bar in Acciaroli, southern Italy, in 2016. The town has a disproportionately high number of centenarians. Salvatore Laporta / KONTROLAB / LightRocket via Getty ...

What determines how long we live - and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The omnipresence of that questions explains why humans have a history of trying anything to defy the ...