Aging is a complex process that has long puzzled scientists. A recent study published in Engineering proposes a new theory ...

In late 2021 an Israeli billionaire named Yuri Milner gathered some of the most celebrated scientific minds of our time at his lavish US$100-million-dollar mansion in California. The topic of ...

A genetic study of worms reveals that aging may involve programmed gene functions, challenging the theory of aging. Discover more. hope that science eventually may find a way to stop or reverse the ...

As you write yet another check to cover your children's ruinous college bills, there is definitely a bright side to consider: if you weren't doing this, you'd long since be dead. This cheerful insight ...

The couple went on a quest to find a general theory that could explain what aging is and why and how it happens. After more than 20 years of "sustained intellectual effort"—first at Moscow State ...

This article is a critique of the successful aging (SA) paradigm as described in the Rowe and Kahn book, Successful Aging (1998). The article shows how the implicit social theory developed in the book ...

Donald Douglas Miller, who was dean of the faculty of medicine and dentistry at the University of Alberta, will become dean of the School of Medicine at New York Medical College this month. Regan ...

A popular theory in neuroscience proposes that slow development of the prefrontal cortex explains teenagers' seemingly impulsive and risky behavior. But an extensive literature review finds that much ...