The genetics of one's personality, or gene variants that predict it, could be more relevant to human experience and ...

Mortality trends continue to befuddle experts. NEW ORLEANS – A new study from LIMRA and the Society of Actuaries Research Institute finds improved mortality in the group life segment. The 2024 Group ...

Research on postwar Britain suggests lower sugar intake in infancy may be tied to lower cancer risk and healthier diets later ...

The conditions for life surviving on planets entirely covered in water are more fluid than previously thought, opening up the possibility that water worlds could be habitable, according to a new paper ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, CU Boulder researchers and ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. Over the past 150 years, humanity has unleashed unimaginable energy by splitting ...

A study by Dr. Ansgar Hudde and Professor Dr. Marita Jacob at the University of Cologne's Department of Sociology and Social Psychology has shown that parenthood is associated with a lower level of ...

New research details healthy lifestyle factors that may extend your life. People with a genetic risk of early death can extend their life by up to 5.5 years. Doctors say lifestyle factors can make a ...

A study of DNA from half a million volunteers supports an old evolutionary theory about why our bodies eventually wear out. By Carl Zimmer Why do we grow old and die? In the 19th century, the German ...

Our final words to loved ones may not fall on deaf ears. As humans lay dying, new research suggests that one crucial sense is still functioning: The brain still registers the last sounds a person will ...