Wrinkles, gray hair, stiff joints – aging feels so familiar that it almost seems boring, until you realize scientists still don’t fully agree on why it happens at all. For decades, biologists have chased the puzzle of why bodies that can repair broken bones and fight off infections eventually falter and fail. The mystery ...
Imagine walking past a creature that was alive when Shakespeare first penned his sonnets, or swimming beside a fish that witnessed the Industrial Revolution unfold. This isn’t science fiction – it’s reality. Some of the most extraordinary beings on our planet have mastered something humans have dreamed about for millennia: living for centuries without the ...
Imagine waking up at 80 with the energy and cellular health of someone in their 30s. It sounds like a sci‑fi promise, but the science of aging has sprinted from myth to mechanism in a single generation. Researchers now track the wear and tear of time in molecular ink, and – more startling – they ...
