The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

An American born in 2024 can expect to live to age 79, on average, an increase of more than half a year from 2023, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics released ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024 — the highest mark in American history. It's the result of not only the dissipation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also waning death rates ...

Life expectancy for the average Canadian is nearly back at pre-pandemic levels, Statistics Canada says. Life expectancy at birth in Canada increased for the second consecutive year in 2024, the agency ...

AFTER GETTING VACCINATED. PERRY RUSSOM, ABC NEWS, WASHINGTON. NEW HAMPSHIRE RANKS 10TH IN THE COUNTRY IN LIFE EXPECTANCY. A NEW REPORT FROM THE CDC SHOWS THE AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE STATE IS ...

Life expectancy is on the rise, but you wouldn't know it talking to American adults today. Research shows that middle-aged and older Americans consistently underestimate how long they're likely to ...

François L'Italien is coordinator of the Observatoire de la retraite and deputy director of the Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine (IREC). Funding for the Observatoire de la retraite and ...

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks of the “Dead Internet Theory,” an idea that the internet is dominated by bot activity ...

Since the early 20th century, sustained declines in mortality have driven steady increases in life expectancy, particularly in high-income countries. Several studies have reported that this ...

Chinese citizens are now living as long as Americans, reaching a milestone nearly two decades earlier than experts had forecast, according to official data. Life expectancy in China has risen sharply ...

Researchers found that the gains in average life expectancy during the last century are unlikely to continue. The reasons for that increase were a huge downturn in infant mortality along with medical ...