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The mature mind: Aging resiliently

VIDEO: Connect with brain health experts about the best ways to cultivate resilience as we age, and how to support loved ones with memory loss and dementia

Australian centenarians Maya Sonnenburg, Isabel Paterson, Victor Lilienthal, Albert Lowcock and Joan Wilson give a photographer the thumbs up outside the Queensland Parliament building in Brisbane, where they were among 45 senior citizens aged 100 or older feted during a celebratory lunch in 2016.

Society

Human life span may have no limit, analysis of supercentenarians suggests

Statistical methods predict that old-age record could reach 130 by century’s end

Society

Taxes, taxes — past, present and future

Here’s how the inevitable came to be, and where it may be headed

Photograph of an elderly woman lying in bed. Standing and sitting around her are family members, two of them holding her hands. A hospice aide and a bottle of lotion are seen at the foot of the bed.

Health & Disease

Going gentle

A sociologist explains how to get the most out of the final months of life

A painting showing Adam and Eve in an earthly paradise setting, with a river, mountains and a waterfall in the background, and trees in the foreground. Animals of all stripes fill the scene: lions, horses, chickens, turkeys, pelicans, parrots, deer, camels, dogs, cats, tigers and more. Adam and Eve, naked, are under a tree. Eve is offering an apple to Adam as a snake in the tree looks on.

Society

On whose green Earth?

Are we supposed to take care of the planet or should it take care of us? Willis Jenkins explains how religion shapes the conflicting views over climate change and other environmental issues.

A photograph shows a fragment of a porcelain plate that was excavated at the former Tempelhof airfield in Berlin, site of the old airport and forced labor camps during the Nazi era. The phrase “Schönheit der Arbeit,” inscribed on the plate, means “beauty of work,” and is the name of a Nazi propaganda organization for workplace efficiency. A swastika design is also on the plate.

Society

Grim relics

Archaeology of the Nazi era is about digging for truth through science. Reinhard Bernbeck discusses the origins and ethics of this approach.

Russian soldiers travel through ruins of Aleppo, Syria

Food & Environment

Climate change can set the stage for violence

Worsened by global warming, drought and other environmental stressors play a role in fanning the flames of civil conflicts

Illustration shows a bead curtain being parted to reveal a room beyond, in which three people are sitting in armchairs talking with each other in a therapy session.

The Mind

Better therapy for Asian Americans

Most of today’s psychotherapies are grounded in Western values. Researchers hope that tailoring treatments to patients’ cultural backgrounds will improve mental health outcomes.

Shankar Jalota poses as part of photographer Brock Elbank’s recently completed Vitiligo Portrait Series

Health & Disease

The dappled dilemma facing vitiligo science

Even as scientists celebrate progress in the lab, a stigma-busting movement asserts that those with the autoimmune skin condition are more in need of acceptance than medicine

Society

To learn Klingon or Esperanto: What invented languages can teach us

NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.

Illustration shows houses, shaped like dominos, threatening to fall and bring down the economy with it.

Society

A run on the bank, 21st century style

Timeline: Major moments of the 2008 global financial crisis.

Photo shows a mother helping her son during a family meal. Food culture and culinary traditions are rich fodder for anthropologists who study language.

Society

What we talk about when we talk about food

From identity to national politics, gastronomical conversations can reflect who we are, and who we are not

Health & Disease

This myth about guns is killing us

OPINION: The idea that gun violence prevention research is at odds with gun rights is just not true

Photograph of a statue of Lady Justice, shown blindfolded and holding a balance scale.

Society

If it pleases the Prosecution

The immense powers of prosecutors throughout the US mean that the scales are tipped against defendants — and justice itself, says a legal expert

A photo collage of black-and-white pictures of different families interspersed with population charts, census data books and maps.

Society

The story of families, wrested from big data

Records tell the story of the decline of the patriarchy, the rise and fall of marrying young, and pandemic fallout; digitizing the data could reveal even richer tales

Photograph of colorful wooden houses with a bay in the background and mountains on the far shore. Chunks of ice are floating in the water.

Physical World

The race against radon

Scientists are working to map out the risks of the permafrost thaw, which could expose millions of people to the invisible cancer-causing gas

Photograph of an old cemetery in Wantage, New Jersey, with stones dating from the 1800s.

Society

She sees dead bodies

An environmental historian looks at how Americans treat corpses and what it means

Cartoon-style illustration of a snazzy, turquoise electric car being fueled up. The background is black with a lot of hexagons on it.

Society

Make electric vehicles affordable for the rest of us

OPINION: EV subsidies are poorly designed and mostly benefit the rich. Some simple changes could make them more effective and equitable.

A participant in an experiment on giving people a long-term universal basic income stands outside her house holding oranges she has bought from a man leaning on bicycle in Kenya.

Society

Can science solve the poverty problem?

An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight with tools and programs that are more effective than ever before

Society

How to detect clandestine nuclear weapons programs

A “policy physicist” explores practical ways to sniff out uranium processing from afar

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