For most of modern history, the story of human life expectancy has been one of almost uninterrupted progress. Sanitation, vaccines, surgical advances, and better nutrition pushed average lifespans ...

People could soon live to 150 years as breakthroughs in biological clocks and rejuvenation research stretch human lifespans to new highs, one expert predicted. Geneticist Steve Horvath told Time that ...

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into their DNA? Relative to many other species, humans are particularly long-lived, ...