ageing
31/07/2022 - 15:02
When half a million people completed an online questionnaire in 2018 the participants who were in their 20s and 30s said on... →
29/09/2021 - 14:45
They got off lightly. A new study has argued that Calment, the world’s oldest woman, could have easily continued much longer. After the age... →
10/10/2017 - 15:27
Films, such as Logan’s Run and Soylent Green, have painted grim visions of an overpopulated future, where drastic measures... →
17/09/2017 - 13:24
Research suggests it’s during your mid-thirties that family pressure and increased financial responsibility conflate causing problems both... →
06/06/2017 - 14:07
In a restaurant setting sometime in the not-too distant future, a man and a woman are on their first date. After the initial nerves subside... →
06/06/2016 - 13:30
To understand this loss, we must first define what we mean by “complexity” in the scientific sense. Consider a Rube Goldberg machine, in... →
02/12/2015 - 15:54
When does old age begin?
The poet Dante believed old age started at 45. A survey of the British public concluded that it starts at 59 – the... →
01/10/2015 - 17:13
According to many estimates, these whales live at least 150 years, and perhaps as long as 210. Apart from slightly leathery skin, a bit of... →
14/09/2015 - 13:55
Prof Jamie Timmons, from King's College London, told the BBC News website: "There's a healthy ageing signature that's common to all our... →
11/07/2015 - 19:36
Prof Moffitt told the BBC: "Any area of life where we currently use chronological age is faulty, if we knew more about biological age we... →
25/07/2014 - 14:46
Topics of interest include the following:
• Life-table-based measures
• Measures based on subjective life expectancy and survival... →
10/07/2014 - 16:26
Elizabeth Blackburn has always been fascinated by how life works. Born in 1948, she grew up by the sea in a remote town in Tasmania,... →