Graham Lawton
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 21, 2026
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- Jul 24, 2026
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How long could we possibly live? A new estimate is mind-boggling | New Scientist (opens the original)
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A few years ago, I wrote a memorable and quite controversial story about Jeanne Calment, who was then – and remains now – the official holder of the world longevity record. She was born in 1875 and died in 1997, aged 122 years and 164 days. At least that’s the official version of events. According to some doubters, the woman who died as Jeanne Calment was actually her daughter Yvonne, who fraudulently assumed her mother’s identity when Jeanne died in 1934. Yvonne was 23 years Jeanne’s junior. St
The shock revelation that light bulbs are wrecking your metabolism | New Scientist (opens the original)
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Take a flashlight – the one on your phone will do – turn it on and place the pad of your index finger over the bulb. See that red glow? You might think it’s something to do with blood, but you’d be wrong. It’s photons of red light bouncing around inside your finger, looking for somewhere to land. This simple experiment is a doorway to one of the most profound and surprising biological discoveries of recent years. “Light is a nutrient,” says Bob Fosbury, who was an astrophysicist at the European
There are only a few anti-ageing supplements that actually work | New Scientist (opens the original)
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I’m a big fan of the New Scientist podcast Change Your Mind, on which my erstwhile colleagues Cat de Lange and Helen Thomson discuss “all the brain health advice you really need to know”. One recent episode is well worth a listen if you’re interested in keeping your brain healthy. Cat and Helen invited JoAnn Manson, who is head of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts, to the podcast to discuss her research on multivitamin supplements and brain health. She describe
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