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Alzheimer’s disease affects over six million people in the United States, disrupting memory, behavior, and sleep. One ...

Researchers, drawing upon data from major aging studies, are now developing a digital app to help patients and their doctors ...

Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.

Even more surprising was the magnitude of the effect – extreme heat has a comparable impact on speeding up aging as smoking ...

We all like to imagine we're aging well. Now a simple blood or saliva test promises to tell us by measuring our "biological ...

Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a ...

Research studies have used “epigenetic clocks”, which measure the methylation of our genes, to estimate biological age. By ...

Temperature is another factor that can spoil sleep during the summer months. Just before we fall asleep, our core body temperature begins a steep descent of roughly 1°C to help us fall asleep. It ...

So while one-off tests of biological age make for impressive social media posts, for most people they represent a significant ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite living near the impact site in Mexico.

In eusocial superorganisms like leafcutter ant colonies, labor is divvied up according to body shape and size, but University ...