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