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Stanford's Longevity Center Is Reframing What a Long Life Actually Means
Stanford's longevity researchers are asking a harder question than how to live longer: whether our institutions were ever built for lives this long.
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The Aging Heart: What Science Now Knows About Its Slow Unraveling
A landmark European Heart Journal review maps the cellular traps that make the aging heart progressively harder to save.
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The Companies Turning the Daily Commute Into a Climate Strategy
The daily commute is becoming a corporate climate battleground, and the companies getting it right are treating it as a system, not a perk.
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The Science of Satisfying Friendships and What It Reveals About the Loneliness Crisis
New research on what makes friendships genuinely satisfying is quietly reframing loneliness as a structural problem, not just a personal one.
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America's Friendship Recession Is a Public Health Emergency Hiding in Plain Sight
Social isolation raises your risk of premature death by 30 percent, matching cigarettes, yet America's friendship recession draws almost no policy response.
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17 Mar 2026
How the Low-Fat Diet Myth Reshaped American Health for the Worse
The grocery store shelves of the 1980s and 1990s told a simple story: fat was the enemy. Rows of low-fat yogurts, fat-free cookies, and reduced-fat crackers pro
17 Mar 2026
A Grand Forks Garden Is Quietly Rebuilding Belonging, One Seed at a Time
Mary Moroney-Fernandez did not set out to redesign social infrastructure. She set out to grow food. But when the multilingual educator at Winship Elementary app
17 Mar 2026
America's Fitness Deserts Are a Geography Problem, Not a Willpower Problem
The conversation about physical inactivity in America has long been framed as a personal failing. People are told to move more, sit less, take the stairs. What
17 Mar 2026
The Villages and the Longevity Paradox: What Mass Retirement Living Gets Right and Wrong
Galit Nimrod has spent years studying what happens when older adults cluster together by choice, and few places on earth offer a more concentrated laboratory th
17 Mar 2026
The Oxidized Cholesterol Quietly Driving Some of Aging's Worst Diseases
Cholesterol has long been cast as the villain in cardiovascular disease, but the story is considerably more complicated than the standard lipid panel suggests.
17 Mar 2026
Berkeley's Longevity Festival Is Back, and the Stakes Are Getting Personal
Every May, a particular kind of optimism descends on Berkeley. It is not the political kind, nor the nostalgic kind the city is famous for. It is something stra
17 Mar 2026
The Fat You Eat May Be Quietly Reshaping Your Immune Army
Most people think about dietary fat in terms of heart disease or waistlines. Researchers are now finding that the conversation needs to expand considerably, bec
17 Mar 2026
Stanford's Century Summit Bets That Living Longer Means Working Differently
The Stanford Center on Longevity is convening its Century Summit 2026 around a premise that sounds simple but carries enormous structural weight: as human lifes
17 Mar 2026
Zinc Steps In When Injured Arteries Start Aging Too Fast
When an artery is injured, the damage does not stop at the wound itself. Something subtler and more consequential begins to unfold inside the cells lining the v
17 Mar 2026
The Bacteria in Your Gut May Be Quietly Rewiring Your Aging Brain
Something remarkable is happening in the space between your intestines and your mind. Scientists have long suspected that the gut and brain are in constant conv
