Usually, when someone reaches the milestone of turning 100, it makes local headlines and might even go viral on social media — but what if that became the norm? Reaching 100 years of age could become ...

Will a human ever celebrate a 150th birthday? You bet, says Stephen Austad, a biology of ageing researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Austad is so sure that life expectancy is poised ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

A molecular biogerontology professor believes we’ve only started to move toward holding off aging, and that humans will eventually have the potential to live for 1,000 to 20,000 years. Technology not ...

Imagine a future where humans live in huge 'space oases' on Mars – luxury indoor habitats made of heat-reflective material that grow their own food. Robots are sent into the vast Martian wilderness, ...

Over the course of our long, complicated evolutionary history, humans have seen our brains triple in size, now weighing in at roughly three pounds on average. At some point along the way, humans ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Humans living underwater. It might sound like something from a science fiction movie, but this is the real ambition of UK startup DEEP. CNN’s Max Foster took a tour of ...

Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

As climate change heats up the planet, there's a question burning in scientists' minds. ROB MEADE: Basically, how hot is too hot for humans to survive for long periods? SHAPIRO: That's Harvard ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In 2017, Purdue University researchers helped discover a lava tube on the moon that could protect astronauts from hazardous conditions on the surface. Now, 3D image ...