When both people in a couple drink alcohol, they may live longer, too, according to a new study.

Although you get your fatty acid levels routinely checked at the doctor’s, rarely do clinicians and researchers consider the effects of their potentially harmful byproducts.

New research identifies one of the first cellular links between healthy fats known as monounsaturated fatty acids and lifespan in lab worms.

A new method using roundworms can help determine which genes are relevant to the aging process, researchers say.

Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.

"Air pollution is a huge public health threat, globally. And we don’t really treat it that way," Christa Hasenkopf argues in this podcast episode.

New research finds that turtles in the wild age slowly and have long lifespans, and identifies several species that essentially don't age at all.

Sedentary tendencies may be robbing aging humans of a key benefit of exercise: the myriad repair mechanisms that heal the body from the minor dings and tears of hunter-gatherer and farming lifestyles.

Certain food choices add minutes of healthy life, and others do the opposite, say researchers. Here's what they say to eat or avoid.