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Nasa / UGREEN 3S / Science Photo / … Cancer: The Final Frontier
Landmark breakthroughs in cancer treatment and a policy structure where those advances can flourish have given fuel to the ambitious “Moonshot” to cure the disease. But is it really possible?
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Adam Levey A World Without Work
For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing?
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Michael Dougherty / Flickr Running Into Old Age
A growing number of seniors are completing marathons and triathlons, shedding new light on how exercise affects the elderly body.
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kris krüg/Flickr The Smartest Age
A new study looks at the peaks of different types of cognitive abilities over a lifespan.
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Tim Shaffer/Reuters Boomer Grannies: Soccer Moms 2.0
They were instrumental in determining elections during the 90s—and will play a key role in 2016.
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Sue Clark/Flickr Can Your Job Help Your Brain Age More Gracefully?
A new study looks at whether retired surgeons have better memory skills than retired painters.
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fedewild/Flickr Where Age Equals Happiness
In the U.S., well-being tends to be highest in a person's earliest and latest years. But elsewhere, new research shows, quality of life follows a very different pattern.
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Scott Jacob/Flickr How Retirement Was Invented
The earliest schemes for financial support in old age were pegged to life expectancy.
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Fechi Fajardo/Flickr Battling Ageism With Subliminal Messages
When seniors were led to subconsciously absorb positive stereotypes about old age, their physical health improved along with their self-esteem.
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Peter Yang What Happens When We All Live to 100?
If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising and far-reaching ways.
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Christopher Michel/Wikimedia Generations Are an Invention—Here's How They Came to Be
Europeans created the idea that individuals share something important with, as one lexicographer put it in 1863, "all men living more or less at the same time"
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David Hodgson/Flickr Making Aging Positive
Many of my older-adult patients wanted to make a difference in the world but, finding no role for themselves, were treated as socially useless. Having created a new stage of life, the next step is to make it meaningful.
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Reuters America Is About to Get Really Old
The rest of the developed world is about to get even older.
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Reuters The Rich Live Longer: So How Much Money 'Buys' 1 More Year of Life?
Climbing America's income ladder today is truly a game of life and delayed death—and thousands of dollars are separating the rungs.
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Luke Hayfield/flickr Why Don't Older Americans Want Time Machines?
Aging changes our relationship with technology, both real and imagined.
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TruLink/Starkey Hearing Technologies When Your Hearing Aid Is an iPhone
A company is trying to remove the social stigma associated with hearing loss.
