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Research boom on ingredients for 'enhanced cosmetics'

Growing demand among baby boomers and others for "enhanced cosmetics" that marry cosmetics and active ingredients to smooth wrinkled skin and otherwise improve appearance is fostering research on micro-capsules and other ...

Chemistry / Other

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hidden star power revealed: Astronomers find ancient galaxy cluster still producing stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like quiet, middle-aged baby boomers peacefully residing in some of the world's largest cities, families of some galaxies also have a hidden wild youth that they only now are revealing ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Social media users 50 and older are fastest-growing Web demographic

Awash in jargon -- "wall," "news feed," "tags," "defriend" -- social media can be intimidating for baby boomers and seniors who have spent most of their lives comfortably in an analog world.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Study: Young people not so 'green' after all

They have a reputation for being environmentally minded do-gooders. But an academic analysis of surveys spanning more than 40 years has found that today's young Americans are less interested in the environment ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Silver surfers: New social networking Web site Genkvetch geared to seniors

Facebook, shmacebook. Senior citizens want their own social networking sites.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

People entering their 60s may have more disabilities today than in prior generations

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a development that could have significant ramifications for the nation's health care system, Baby Boomers may well be entering their 60s suffering far more disabilities than their counterparts did in previous ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Can mental training games help prevent Alzheimer's?

Loss of thinking power is a fear shared by many aging baby boomers. That fear has resulted in a budding industry for brain training products - exercises such as Brain Age, Mindfit and My Brain Trainer - which in 2007 generated ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Relationships more important than genetic ties when deciding who cares for aging family, study finds

America's elderly population will nearly double by 2050, according to a Pew Research report. As baby boomers enter retirement, concern exists as to who will care for them as they age. Traditionally, children have accepted ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Seniors' sex lives are up -- and so are STD cases

Across the nation, and especially in communities that attract a lot of older Americans, the free-love generation is continuing to enjoy an active - if not always healthy - sex life.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

You don't call, you don't write: Connectivity in marine fish populations

Children of baby boomers aren't the only ones who have taken to setting up home far from where their parents live. A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents how larval ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Up-and-coming forests will remain important carbon sinks

(PhysOrg.com) -- The aging forests of the Upper Great Lakes could be considered the baby boomers of the region's ecosystem.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Baby-boomer’ study shows importance of childhood

Experiences in your childhood shape your health and wealth as an adult according to Britain’s longest-running baby-boomer research study, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), which celebrates its 65th birthday ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Baby boomers fueling boom in knee, hip surgeries

(AP) -- We're becoming a nation of bum knees, worn-out hips and sore shoulders, and it's not just the Medicare set. Baby boomer bones and joints also are taking a pounding, spawning a boom in operations to fix them.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

To thrive in old age, keep an open mind

Don't worry, be happy about getting older.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 28, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Roundtable looks at longevity and the boomers

It's been called "elderquake" and "the silver tsunami." Its statistics are staggering: Over the next three decades, the number of people older than 65 in the United States will double from 40 million to 80 ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6