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  1. Getting the Most From Our Extra 30 Years

    Publicerades: 2025-07-01

  2. How to Be a Super Ager, with Eric Topol

    Publicerades: 2025-06-24

  3. Why Women Live Longer Than Men

    Publicerades: 2025-06-17

  4. Why Haven’t We Solved Alzheimer’s?

    Publicerades: 2025-06-10

  5. We’re Underestimating Older Brains

    Publicerades: 2025-06-03

  6. The Truth About Biohacking

    Publicerades: 2025-05-27

  7. The Billion Dollar Bet: Will Humans Live to 150?

    Publicerades: 2025-05-20

  8. Introducing: The Future of Aging

    Publicerades: 2025-05-19

  9. Can We Pull Carbon Out of the Air?

    Publicerades: 2024-08-13

  10. Has the Moment for Hydrogen Finally Arrived?

    Publicerades: 2024-08-06

  11. Keeping Cool Without Warming the Planet

    Publicerades: 2024-07-30

  12. Is the U.S. Ready for a New Nuclear Age?

    Publicerades: 2024-07-23

  13. The Great American Road Trip, Reimagined

    Publicerades: 2024-07-16

  14. Climate Change and the Surprising Success of Solar Power

    Publicerades: 2024-07-09

  15. Introducing: The Great Rebuild

    Publicerades: 2024-06-25

  16. Humans vs. Machines Introduces Click Here

    Publicerades: 2023-10-05

  17. The Race to Control AI

    Publicerades: 2023-08-29

  18. When Bots Become Our Friends

    Publicerades: 2023-08-22

  19. AI Took My Career!

    Publicerades: 2023-08-15

  20. How AI Will Turbocharge Misinformation

    Publicerades: 2023-08-08

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Human beings are living longer than ever. Thanks to advances like vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurized milk and clean water, we’ve added more than 30 years to the average lifespan over the last 120 years. That’s more than was added in the previous 10,000 years combined. More recently, enormous progress has been made in our treatment of deadly conditions like heart disease and cancer, with mortality rates for each dropping by double digits. Now science is tackling a new challenge: Can we cure aging itself? In pursuit of this holy grail, longevity research has gone from a sleepy backwater to a multi billion dollar field, populated — yes — by plenty of hucksters, but also by Nobel laureates. The goal is to find out what causes us to age and what we can do to slow it down, or maybe even reverse it altogether. Could tweaking the right molecule buy us 20 more years, or are we maxed out? Can older brains be re-wired to function like younger brains? Do any so-called biohacks actually work?  These are some of the questions we are tackling in this season of The World as You’ll Know It: The Future of Aging. With leading scientists in the fields of biology, neuroscience and medicine, we’ll look at the cutting-edge of aging research and what living longer could mean for all of us.

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