Our evolved craving for cause and effect once ensured survival but now fuels misunderstanding. Learning to favor correlation ...

Wildfire causes most living things to flee or die, but some fungi thrive afterward, even feasting on charred remains. New University of California, Riverside research finds the secret to post-fire ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and quietly supports nearly every movement. It holds the spine upright, steadies ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published ...

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

A new analysis suggests that genes play a much larger role in human longevity than previously believed. But lifestyle factors ...

Scientists have long believed that longevity is shaped by lifestyle choices; however, a new study reveals that genes may play a larger role in determining how long people live.

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...