It is no secret that pulling an all-nighter is a bad idea. It impairs cognitive function, increases anxiety symptoms and decreases alertness. As it turns out, there’s another reason you should avoid it: it ages your brain. According to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, a single night of sleep deprivation can change … Read more
And of course there are other priorities: infectious disease, pandemic control, global health, prevention of childhood diseases. If you ask Bill Gates, he’d have a whole different set of priorities. You could argue that those would actually improve average longevity far more than anti-ageing research, by reducing infant mortality and infectious disease and so on. … Read more
The company’s study included 74 participants with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s who received either the Cognito stimulation or a sham device that acted as a placebo. Subjects were asked to use the headset for an hour every day for six months. Compared with the placebo group, those who got the Cognito stimulation showed a 77 … Read more
To figure out why and how the effect lasts for years after someone smokes their last cigarette, Duffy’s team turned to their donors’ DNA. Seemingly everything from wildfire smoke to your parents’ trauma has been linked to epigenetic changes—physical manipulations of the DNA molecule that switch genes on or off. Sure enough, the long-term effect … Read more
Nicole Kidman is sharing her approach to decision making and not letting judgment influence her choices Nicole Kidman is sharing her approach to decision making and not letting judgment influence her choices Nicole Kidman, 56, is revealing how she avoids worrying about people’s opinions on her fashion choices. Kidman opened up about many things personal … Read more
China’s is rapidly getting grayer, and amid unsuccessful attempts to boost languishing birth rates, the country has now unveiled plans to reorient a significant part of its massive economy around its aging population. China’s State Council on Monday unveiled a series of measures to promote the “silver economy,” calling on both state-owned and private enterprises … Read more
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“It is true that I am considered an expert on dog coat color,” Sheila Schmutz, an emeritus professor of animal and poultry science at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, told me. “At least in terms of genetics.” I sent Schmutz, who has published multiple papers about the coats of dogs and cattle, a selection … Read more
Synology DS723+ 2-bay Diskstation NAS Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET There’s nothing like a sad tale of data loss to make me check all my backups are up-to-date and fresh. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been helping out a friend with a serious and painful data loss issue. Long story short, a MacBook died, important data was … Read more
For the past 20 years, I’ve traveled across the world to study the five Blue Zones — areas in which people live exceptionally long lives: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece and Loma Linda, California. Based on my interviews with 263 people ages 100 or older, I’ve found that the world’s longevity … Read more
Older, shorter, female or even foreign — U.S. allies in Asia are looking beyond their traditional military recruitment profile to secure enough troops and handle the growing security challenges posed by China and North Korea. Japan and the Philippines each have simmering territorial disputes with China, while a wider swath of countries including Australia and … Read more