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Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.
Pathogenic, self-propagating proteins called prions found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's are also found in Down syndrome patients.
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
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Sleep less, sleep less, sleep more.
Becoming less physically active as you get older is not inevitable.
Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that cause leprosy, have the surprising ability to grow and reverse aging in armadillo livers.
Caffeine does something, but it's not clear exactly what.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
Their neurons are very different from "normal" people.
The answer may depend on your lifestyle.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
The idea that we're happier at the beginning and end of our lives is really just a comforting myth.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
"We are what our bodies do with what we eat."
But don't buy your own brain zapping machine, yet.
While Y chromosome loss was first observed in 1963, it was not until 2014 that researchers found the link to a shorter life span.
It's common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.
The world is aging, and with age comes vision decline. New research may have found how to improve eyesight in an accessible way.
Should men be doing kegels?
Wearable technology can help increase lifespan by changing what we know about our dietary needs and creating new ways to exercise.
The last time the population shrank was during the great famine of 1959-61.
Your old-fashioned chronological age is just a number. Your biological age can tell you how healthy you really are.
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football...
Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
Older adults who napped at least once or for more than an hour a day had a 40% higher chance of developing Alzheimer’s than those who napped less.
The idea of "absolute time" was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.