Browsing: ageing

Stephanie Woods is right to draw attention to how hard it can be to care for someone who didn’t care for you (The impossible task of…

Taking multivitamins daily was associated with changes in epigenetic ageing ‘clocks’.Credit: Halfpoint Images/GettyTaking a multivitamin every day can slow certain markers of biological ageing, a new…

Taking a multivitamin every day for two years appears to slow some markers of biological ageing – albeit to a small degree, research suggests.While chronological age…

Ethics statementThe YA, HA, PCI and AD samples were obtained from the University of Washington repository bank. In 2016, the University of Washington Institutional Review Board…

Nature, Published online: 13 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00476-1Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods;…

Nature, Published online: 30 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00322-4Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

Lajuana Weathers is determined to be the healthiest version of herself. She starts each day with a celery juice, is always trying to increase her step count,…

Concerns over an ageing population are overblown and society should learn to celebrate and capitalise on its “massive cohort of healthy, active, older, creative adults”, a…

Psychologists have typically believed that we become less curious as we age, but recent research has shown curiosity actually becomes more targeted and specific in our…