A baby okapi has made his first foray into public view after being born at a Yorkshire zoo. Yorkshire Wildlife Park (YWP), near Doncaster, has been part of a breeding programme for the endangered ...

White Oak Conservation Center, founded in 1982 by donor Howard Gilman, promotes long-term conservation solutions by ...

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A newborn okapi calf rests beside his mother, Kivuli, in a private enclosure at the Sacramento Zoo in October 2025. The zoo this week unveiled the calf’s name, “Moki,” inspired by parents Molimo and ...

Humans are already living longer than in past generations, according to global statistics. In the U.S., life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024, marking an all-time high, according to CDC data, with ...

Karin Modig receives funding from Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare and from Karolinska Institutets research funds. How much do your genes determine how long you’ll live?

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

The cast of “The Lifespan of a Fact” is, from left, Ian LaChance as a writer, Lisa Bryk as a magazine editor and Jacob Bell as a fact-checker. COHOES — The acting crackles with even more vitality than ...

Longevity enthusiasts tell stories of extreme biohacking, post-cryopreservation polyamory and penis injections. Are they onto something? For the last couple of years, I’ve been following the progress ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Using data from human twin studies, an ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. For researchers studying aging — and thinking about how to extend our ...

If you watched the Super Bowl last year, you probably remember the Rocket Mortgage commercial that cut through the noise and went straight to the heart. Instead of flash or controversy, it told a ...