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Humans are still evolving, So, where will evolution take us in 1,000 years?

Can billions of dollars’ worth of high-tech research succeed in making death optional?

Humanity has a complicated relationship with death. Will technology one day enable us to break up with it completely?

Looking for a fountain of youth? You may need to search no further than your sneakers. Exercise, particularly high-intensity interval training, encourages your cells to make more proteins to feed their energy-producing machinery -- and this arrests the aging process, according to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Cell Metabolism.

For the first time, scientists have discovered a connection between a cell's fat content and its lifespan, which could explain the 'obesity paradox' that's been puzzling scientists for decades: why obese people have the lowest all-cause mortality rates, whereas the rate for those who are fit and lean is higher.

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