The new coronavirus’s reputation for messing with scientists’ assumptions has taken a truly creepy turn. Researchers exploring the interaction between the coronavirus and its hosts...
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In a comprehensive study that tracked almost 15,000 U.S. women from middle age into their senior years, researchers found that women who gave birth to...
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For humankind in general, these findings hint at an intriguing, if largely theoretical, prospect: the maximum possible human life span has not been reached.