Do humans have to die? What causes aging, and can we get around it? We'll talk about why we age and what kind of treatments can help us live longer.



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We all know turtles live an amazingly long time, but what's their secret? And can we apply it to humans?

Computational geneticist Yaniv Erlich helped build the world's largest family tree -- comprising 13 million people and going back more than 500 years. He shares fascinating patterns that emerged from the work -- about our love lives, our...

We all know turtles live an amazingly long time, but what's their secret? And can we apply it to humans?

In this video Paul Andersen explains the importance of scale in science and engineering. The Universe varies in size along three scales: size, timespan, and energy. Many phenomenon are too small and fast, or two large and slow to...

Healthcare Triage often notes that lots of health metrics are improving in the US. But that is not the case with life expectancy. Life span is decreasing, and the losses are not equally distributed. The lives of the poor are getting...

There was a big study on alcohol and life expectancy that was all over the news recently. It was pretty scary, and seemed to conclude that any alcohol use can shorten your life. Well, that study had a lot of problems. Let's talk about it.

Describes how insitutional investors and shareholder proposals are playing a big part in the sustainable finance market

Individuals with higher socioeconomic status may enjoy a longer life, but we haven’t precisely pinned down all the reasons why. Disparities in lung function may help explain the lifespan gap between the poorest and richest Americans, and...

Want to be wrinkly and grey haired for the majority of your life? well here's some signs that you could be just that! Here's 10 hidden signs that you're going to live past 100 year old!

CDC finds people in the U.S. lived an average of one month longer in 2018

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The U-S space agency NASA has given the green light for the space shuttle Discovery to lift off late on Tuesday, on an...