The sit-to-stand test can help assess your muscle strength and balance. Walking speed is an important indicator of aging, with slower speeds linked to higher dementia risk and increased fall risk. The ...

Accelerated biological age in midlife was associated with higher risks of cardiovascular disease and death in both men and women over nearly three decades of follow-up. Women with accelerated ...

Regular exercise may help the brain clear away harmful waste that can build up with age. Researchers found that physical activity supports several processes linked to the brain’s glymphatic cleanup ...

For decades, the leading explanation for why bodies age has centered on wear and tear: DNA damage piling up, oxidative stress ...

A single-cell study of the hippocampus suggests brain aging is not a steady decline, but a coordinated immune, vascular, and ...

Cognitive evaluations that ignore age-related arousal patterns may underestimate an older person’s cognitive resources.

People often look at wrinkles, grey hair, or aching knees as signs of getting older. But there is another part of the body ...

A few months ago, some 160 scientists across physics, biology, and medicine met in Singapore for the first ever global conference on the physics of aging, or gerophysics. It's a niche discipline whose ...

The global rise in obesity and population aging represents a major public health challenge, with growing evidence suggesting ...

We came to a bench where a graduate student was working on one of the key mysteries behind antiaging: How does a cell remember its former state? Borrowing from information theory, Sinclair believes in ...