Worldwide, researchers have created lab-grown uteri that let human embryos implant, revealing early pregnancy stages and ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

“Who wants to live forever?” Freddie Mercury mournfully asks in Queen’s 1986 song of the same name. The answer: Quite a few people – so much so that life extension has long been a cottage industry. As ...

Most of us do it, be it romantic, familial, friendly or formal, but kissing among humans and where and how it originated is still hotly debated among historians and anthropologists. Now a new theory ...

Would higher taxes on Earth's elite be more beneficial to the global population's health than all the life-extension science Bezos billions can fund? Reading time 3 minutes A growing area of ...

Dostoevsky’s quote of the day reflects on life’s deeper purpose, reminding readers that true meaning lies not in survival ...

Edward O. Wilson is simultaneously one of my intellectual heroes and someone who frustrates me enormously, and these conflicting feelings were once again stirred as I read his most recent book, The ...

Researchers are now suggesting that male and female lifespans continue to increase linearly, and have not yet hit a hard limit. Previous studies argued that human life expectancy is increasing by less ...

Human life expectancy has potentially been pushed to the max, new research suggests. The recent increase in people's longevity appears to be slowing down despite new developments in medicine, ...