Morning grogginess may be a thing of the past, thanks to bio-alarm clocks designed to wake sleepers at the perfect time. The clocks detect brainwaves or body movements, and are programmed to wake ...

When it comes to fertility, the focus tends to fall on women and their (loudly ticking) biological clocks. Yet it’s not just women who have to take age into account when considering when to have ...

When we first sent men to the moon back in 1969, our life expectancy was about 70. Today we're still going to space, but we can expect to live about eight years longer. But what if, like space itself, ...

An analysis of the Framingham Heart Study data found that higher epigenetic aging metrics predicted lower scores on the ...

The news that autism and schizophrenia may be related to paternal age has brought mixed feeling to the legions of women who have long been warned about the dangers of trying to have children too late.

In cold-blooded vertebrates, deep-brain photoreceptors allow for photoentrainment, the process by which the eyes facilitate setting of the circadian clock. Mammals do not have these receptors; instead ...