Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

The somewhat surprising finding came from a study of the lifespan and diets of more than 5,200 adults aged 80 and over.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil ...

Decades of advances in medical technology and public health are causing global populations to age. While achieving longer lives is certainly a net positive, this demographic shift is placing an ...

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Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...

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Altogether, they reconstructed 11 ancient herpesvirus genomes. The oldest came from a young girl found in southern Italy who ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...