India slipped two positions to 131 out of 148 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2025. Its gender parity score is 64.1 ...

A test using blood and saliva samples could help track aging and guide targeted interventions to maintain mental and physical ...

Older men and women are now living longer than ever before. Across the globe, individuals who reach old age can expect to have more years of life ahead of them than in previous generations. However, ...

Americans are living longer than ever before, due to medical treatment advances, preventative medicine and public health improvements, and this trend of increased lifespan will continue. By ...

Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of ...

The findings suggest primitive eukaryotes were widespread between about 1.6 billion and 800 million years ago, comprising what the scientists have called a “lost world” of early complex life.

Read how demographic factors – age composition, life expectancy and fertility rates – and religious switching changed the ...

Author Dan Buettner worked for more than a decade to identify hot spots of longevity around the world. With the help of the National Geographic Society, Buettner set out to locate places that not ...

Eight million people living with HIV. Just over 6 million on treatment. Behind these big numbers lurk a universe of fascinating epidemiological dynamics. In this special briefing, Spotlight editor ...

Four decades ago, hardly anyone in South Africa had HIV. Today, roughly one in eight people here are living with the virus.

aPopulation Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Biomedical Research Building, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK bCambridge ...