News tagged with human longevity

Immortal worms defy aging

Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (38) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Mathematical model explains how complex societies emerge, collapse

The instability of large, complex societies is a predictable phenomenon, according to a new mathematical model that explores the emergence of early human societies via warfare. Capturing hundreds of years of human history, ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Most babies born this century will live to 100

(AP) -- Most babies born in rich countries this century will eventually make it to their 100th birthday, new research says. Danish experts say that since the 20th century, people in developed countries are living about three ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 3




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Wireless 'tooth tattoo' detects harmful bacteria

Using silk strands pulled from cocoons and gold wires thinner than a spider's web, researchers at Princeton University have created a removable tattoo that adheres to dental enamel and could eventually monitor ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Evolution in an island, the secret for a longer life

ICP researchers published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B one of the first fossil-based evidences supporting the evolutionary theory of ageing, which predicts that species evolving in low mo ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Investments in physics technology and education are key to the future success of medicine

Physics is fundamental to many of the technologies used across medicine today, yet it is often forgotten -- and certainly neglected -- that physics has made important contributions to health ever since the birth of medicine ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study suggests why some animals live longer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new method to detect proteins associated with longevity, which helps further our understanding into why some animals live longer ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

UNH research adds to mounting evidence against popular pavement sealcoat

A parking lot at the edge of the University of New Hampshire campus has contributed important research to an emerging concern for the environment and human health.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Threats to freshwater mussels and the consequences for ecosystems

At the University of Oklahoma's Aquatic Research Facility in Norman, zoologist Caryn Vaughn shows off freshwater mussels that she's recently collected from rivers in the southeastern part of the state. One river alone may ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The social life of ink

Contrary to popular belief, the true genius of Johannes Gutenburg was not the printing press for which he is most often given credit. Both the Chinese and the Koreans had come up with versions of the press ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Engineers develop cement with 97 percent smaller CO2 and energy footprint

Drexel engineers have found a way to improve upon ordinary Portland cement (OPC), the glue that's bonded much of the world's construction since the late 1800s. In research recently published in Cement and Concrete Composites ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A lost world? How zooarchaeology can inform biodiversity conservation

A new study of tropical forests will provide a 50,000-year perspective on how animal biodiversity has changed, explored through an archaeological investigation of animal bones.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

5 Questions: Rando on resetting the 'aging clock,' cell by cell

Advances in the study of stem cells have fueled hopes that someday, via regenerative medicine, doctors could restore aging people’s hearts, livers, brains and other organs and tissues to a more youthful ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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