Longevity Research

Longevity Research

Wearable technology can help increase lifespan by changing what we know about our dietary needs and creating new ways to exercise.
life on mars
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
biological age
Your old-fashioned chronological age is just a number. Your biological age can tell you how healthy you really are.
taboo science
Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned "Frankenstein." But we still grapple with the same questions.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
parrots
Parrots outlive other birds and most mammals.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
An expert explains the emerging science of nutrigenomics.
Jeff Bezos
Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.
An older man sitting on a bench.
The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.
Some of the most popular "anti-aging" diets show promise in rodent studies. But are they effective for humans?