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Will a human ever celebrate a 150th birthday? You bet, says Stephen Austad, a biology of ageing researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Austad is so sure that life expectancy is poised ...

At 5,100 meters above sea level, this settlement is the highest permanent place humans live on Earth. Oxygen levels are roughly half of what they are at sea level, placing constant stress on the human ...