The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the world’s largest government-owned emergency oil stockpile, fell below 300 million barrels on Monday — a milestone that underscores just how dramatically ...

Osteoarthritis affects millions of people and becomes more common with age. The condition slowly damages cartilage, the ...

People age at different speeds. Two bodies born the same year can wear down at very different rates. Extra body fat may be ...

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

Only a few millimeters long, the species has been found from the Mediterranean Sea to the coasts of Japan, Panama and Brazil ...

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 ...

Emerging evidence suggests that only certain types of training produce meaningful benefits, and those benefits may differ ...

Aging may accelerate when long-lived immune cells lose their ability to clear damaged cells, allowing inflammatory debris to build up across the body. In mice, blocking one receptor restored this ...

A one-month randomized trial found a vegan diet altered DNA methylation patterns linked to inflammation, cell growth and ...

Researchers at Texas A&M say a nasal spray reduced age-related brain inflammation, restored cellular energy, and improved ...

Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a genetic disorder that causes remarkable premature aging. Most patients die ...

A new study suggests that DNA mutations may limit human life span to 146–194 years, even under favorable conditions. The ...