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A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate ...

Taking a daily multivitamin for two years slowed biological aging by four months, based on several DNA-based biomarkers — but a healthy lifestyle still matters.

Oxygen is critical to life. When levels of oxygen change, it can have immediate and lasting impacts on a person's health.

Worrying about getting older—especially fearing future health problems—may actually speed up aging at the cellular level, according to new research from NYU. In a study of more than 700 women, those ...

For World Book Day, we asked ten academic experts to share a work of fiction that has challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.

Unlike most frontier neuroscience projects that rely primarily on state funding, this one has been built through a rare mix ...

Many older adults improve their physical and cognitive health over time, overturning the idea that aging equates to a decline ...

Halassa writes in the context of a broader research program he calls algorithmic psychiatry, which argues that mental illness ...

A steady slide into frailty is the story many people tell themselves about old age. The numbers in a long-running federal ...

We’re learning that frailty can quietly arrive decades before old age, with some people in their 30s or 40s unknowingly in a pre-frail state. There are surprising ways to stay strong – and it’s not al ...

The peer-reviewed study found that bottled water is the main source of microplastics, doing damage to the intestinal wall and kidneys and causing systemic inflammation.