For as long as humans have told stories, we’ve wrestled with the same impossible wish: to stay young, or at least to outrun the clock a little longer. Today, that ancient desire has migrated from myth into the lab, where biologists, geneticists, and AI scientists are quietly attempting something that once sounded like fantasy. ...
Sleep looks simple from the outside – closed eyes, quiet room, lights out – but under the surface it’s a high-stakes biological ballet. I once spent a night in a sleep lab for a story and was stunned by the choreography on the screen: waves, spikes, and slow surges painting a story of a ...
Every birthday candle is a data point: a reminder that biology runs on clocks we’re only beginning to read. Across labs and lifetimes, researchers now see aging not as a single tide, but as many currents pushing in the same direction. The mystery isn’t whether – it’s why these cellular systems fray in concert, ...
