Shift Your Mindset is a monthly series from CNN’s Mindfulness, But Better team. We talk to experts about how to do things differently to live a better life. If so, do we really want eternal life? In ...

For anyone overwhelmed by the discourse around longevity and the seemingly constant “breakthroughs” in the quest to vanquish the march of time, Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan’s new ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a driving force in longevity science. Once a behind-the-scenes tool, AI is now central to how researchers accelerate timelines, discover new drugs, and ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese researchers has recently developed a model to predict the aging of 13 human organs, including the brain, enabling precise assessment of organ aging levels, the China ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. In the animal kingdom lifespans can stretch from mere hours to entire centuries, but that’s just the start. Some ...

This discerning study by Ramakrishnan (Gene Machine), a Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist, examines the science of aging and efforts to stop it. Discussing the molecular processes that ...

While genetics provide the blueprint, your daily lifestyle choices are the true architects of your biological clock and ...

For centuries, people have been obsessed with staying young and even living forever. We spend billions of dollars on anti-aging products. We're told to look younger. We question whether older people ...

People have been obsessed with cheating death for millennia, but until recently, little had been understood about how to extend life—or if it was even possible. Scientists now say they are getting ...

The quest for longevity has captivated humanity since the dawn of civilization—from ancient Egyptian mummification rituals and Ponce de León's search for the fountain of youth to Renaissance polymaths ...

How old are you really? Birthdays may be a common tally, but your “age” isn’t determined by time alone. New research increasingly shows the importance of considering chronological age as something ...

Explore the underlying mechanisms of aging and the latest advances in the science of longevity. Cynthia Kenyon, vice president of aging research at Calico Life Sciences, and Celine Halioua, the ...