Live Long and Prosper
Gerontology experts weigh in on humans’ projected lifespans Fact checked by Jim Lacy Guessing how long the youngest generation will live feels like predicting your favorite sports team’s win record before the season begins. The more optimistic researchers now say humans born today could live to age 120; skeptics say most of us will top […]
Life in a Blue Zone
Certain places on the planet have a higher concentration of centenarians. Here’s what researchers know about them. Fact checked by Shannon Sparks Italian longevity researchers in the 1990s discovered something remarkable: A mountainous province on the island of Sardinia had an unusually high number of people over 100. As researchers marked each centenarian’s location on a […]