Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What It Means to Be Human

Scientists discover salamander secrets to regrowing limbs and organs

Published by Andy Walker on May 21, 2013

Thanks to startling new research on immune cells in salamanders, medical science may be able to help humans one day regrow their limbs and regenerate their organs.

Improve Your Memory by Listening to White Noise While You Sleep

Published by David Bunnell on May 6, 2013

If you’re not willing to send electrical shocks through your brain – “mild” as they might be – to become smarter, here’s a much gentler option: play sounds while you sleep. Researchers have found that “carefully timed” sounds, like the rise and fall of waves washing against the shore, can help people…

Published by Andy Walker on May 4, 2013

We were quite taken by this piece by the blogger Kay Svela who writes LittleMissWife.com as she explore the joy of wine consumption, not only from a perspective of giving up “personal house rules” to allow for a little joy but also for the health benefits of wine that she…

Published by Andy Walker on April 25, 2013

Researchers have succeeded in building a functioning kidney built from newborn rat cells.
And it’s being called is a major step towards personalized transplant organs for humans.

Hugh Hefner’s Midwestern longevity diet

Published by Andy Walker on April 11, 2013

Hugh Hefner’s diet is rich with comfort foods. He also practices portion control

Published by Andy Walker on April 9, 2013

A chemical found in red meat helps explain why eating too much beef and bacon is bad for the heart, say scientists. A U.S. study shows carnitine, a compound found in in red meat, is broken down by digestive bacteria and kicks off a chain of events that results in…

7 longevity assumptions that are wrong

Published by Andy Walker on March 22, 2013

Scientists who tracked 1,500 people over eight decades have discovered much of what has been taught about how to live a long life may be incorrect.

In 1921, just over 1,500 Californian children were selected to participate in a study led by a Stanford University psychologist and they were tracked over 80 years to their deaths. Researchers who took on the data in 2011 shattered some conventional longevity assumptions,