A study of a woman who died in 2024 as the oldest person on Earth attempts to untangle the factors that enable some people to ...

Emerging focus on longevity puts age claims under new scrutiny; off by 30 years ...

The oldest verified person in the world is a woman who lived to the incredible age of of 122 years and 164 days before passing away on August 4, 1997. Jeanne Calment was born in Arles ...

For example, in 1997, the oldest person to have ever lived, Jeanne Calment of France, died, and her age was validated by longevity organizations and the Guinness Book of World Records at 122 years ...

Scientists have discovered a “blueprint” for long life by decoding the genome, gut health and lifestyle of the world’s oldest person who died last year at 117. Maria Branyas Morera, an ...

The oldest person ever recorded, Jeanne Calment, died aged 122. But statisticians from Tilburg and Rotterdam’s Erasmus universities, who looked at the age at which 75,000 people in the Netherlands ...

GOMEL, Belarus -- Church records have shown that a woman living in Belarus was born in 1878 -- which if correct could make her the world's oldest woman at 122 years. Maria Sharaya was born in the ...

The 'world's oldest person' has credited two staple foods for her incredible lifespan, claiming to have reached the ripe old age of 123. Sharing her secret to such a long life, Maria revealed on ...

These small details seek to answer, in part, a question most of us have wondered before ― if I behaved absolutely perfectly health-wise, what’s the absolute oldest I could live to? But ...