Biology | Neuroscience
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Chapter one
Years
Biology | Microbiology
Ingenious: Nick Lane
The biochemist explains the elements of life, sex, and aging.
Ideas | Health
What a 9,000-Year-Old Spruce Tree Taught Me
How photographing the world’s oldest living things pushed me outside the boundaries of science.
Matter | Astronomy
How to Survive Doomsday
The high technology that could help us live through the sun’s inevitable transformation.
Biology | Microbiology
Yes, Life in the Fast Lane Kills You
New insights into mitochondria reveal how life expends energy.
Chapter two
Reframing
Biology | Evolution
What Good Is Grandma?
The growing role of grandparents in raising children is right in line with human biology.
Biology | Neuroscience
The Wisdom of the Aging Brain
Tantalizing evidence suggests that brain activity shifts to increase wisdom as we age.
Matter | Physics
Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology
Nanoscale thermal physics guarantees our decline, no matter how many diseases we cure.
Culture | Chemistry
Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age Either
Anxious distillers are trying to make bourbon old before its time.
Biology | Mortality
Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable
The great variety of aging styles among plants and animals suggests it can be controlled.
Biology | Environment
The Birth and Death of a Landscape
A trip to a Louisiana river delta reveals an ecosystem that is growing up.
Chapter three
Back & Forth
Culture | History
The Father of Modern Metal
The creation of stainless steel took equal parts metallurgy and perseverance.
Biology | Mortality
Will 90 Become The New 60?
As our lifespans have increased, so too have our active years. Can that go on?
Ideas | Mortality
The Gravekeeper’s Paradox
People want permanent tombstones that also show decay.
Biology | Health
The Man Who Blamed Aging on His Intestines
The productive, bizarre career of Nobel laureate and early aging researcher Elie Metchnikoff.
Matter | Physics
To Understand Your Past, Look to Your Future
An alternative to the Newtonian worldview promises to help explain quantum weirdness.
Chapter four
People
Biology | Health
The Immortality Hype
Despite the hyperbole, private funding is changing the science of aging for the better.
Biology | Mortality
The Real Secret of Youth Is Complexity
Our physiological processes become increasingly simple as we age.
Ideas | Health
This Is Life at 400
Ballooning life expectancies are upending age-old definitions of life stages.
Ideas | Philosophy
Over Time, Buddhism and Science Agree
Understanding the impermanence of everything—including ourselves.
Culture | Sociology
Retiring Retirement
A growing portion of the elderly look and act anything but.
Ideas | Physics
Spark of Science: Robbert Dijkgraaf
The director of the Institute for Advanced Study on the wonders of his childhood attic.
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“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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