Genes and chance are a big part of living to 100, but lifestyle factors can play a role.freemixer/Getty Images There's a lot that a healthy lifestyle can do for your longevity. But in old age, a big ...

Sleep has long been associated with overall health and wellbeing. Recent findings, however, suggest that sleep is more ...

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 ...

Walking for a certain number of minutes at a brisk pace may extend your lifespan, according to one study. Scientists estimate ...

Sleep isn’t just about feeling rested—it may be one of the strongest predictors of how long you live. Researchers analyzing ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the planet's greatest driver of year-to-year climate swings, shapes temperature, ...

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. Life expectancy in Kansas declined in ...

Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. were among the areas with the highest life expectancy rates in the U.S. Researchers collected data using life expectancy patterns based on birth groups from ...

A person's age is one of the best predictors of how much longer they are likely to live. This is the main idea behind life expectancy. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of how long a person is ...

We are, collectively speaking, living longer than ever before. Life expectancy in the US shot up at a rate of about three years per decade in the last century: from roughly age 47 in 1900 to age 77 in ...