Meaningfully boosting healthspan – the years one lives in good health, free of disease and disability – isn't rocket science.

The gamble of cryonically preserving one’s own body for reanimation somewhere off in the future (or, more frugally, just one’s brain) is ultimately a big bet on the increasing ingenuity and ...

Adults with stronger and more consistent daily patterns of rest and activity showed signs of slower aging, as measured by blood tests, in a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

Tyrannosaurus rex is iconic for its ferocity and big teeth, as well as those teeny-tiny arms. The Cretaceous Period apex predator wasn’t the only carnivore with underdeveloped forelimbs, however. At ...

Picture a woman staggering out of a 5 am spin class, legs trembling, face drawn. A man who keeps adding a few extra kilometres to his run because it doesn’t feel like enough. Or a teen who restarts ...

The door clicks shut on the soundproof booth in which I find myself, and I’m left alone in the dark. I’m sitting in an office chair, headphones on my head, as classical music begins to play. What I am ...

If we're naming things that speed up looking and feeling older, factors such as sun exposure, stress, or smoking may come to mind. But here's something you might not have considered: worrying about ...

For a while back there we might be able to avoid the black hole. They’d been lurking as shadows in our theories of gravity ...

A new study from the University of East London has found that companies led by long-serving chief executives may become less ...

After two devastating hurricanes in two decades, New York City is racing to prepare for the true superstorm, one that ...

Walk into any supermarket and you are surrounded by carbon. Not the kind measured in parts per million in climate reports, ...

The equations that govern black holes were true before there were black holes. That claim is hotly contested, and cuts through one of the deepest fault lines in the philosophy of mathematics. On one ...