agedefying

Perhaps the most famous footage of Iggy Pop live was shot in 1970, when a local TV crew caught the Stooges playing Cincinnati’s Midsummer Rock festival. It’s the source of one of rock history’s truly heroic images: the crowd hoisting a shirtless Pop above them, clinging on to his legs as he stands fully upright, pointing ahead of him with a silver-gloved hand. It’s an intriguing corrective to the well-worn idea that the Stooges were largely greeted with incomprehension and revulsion: in Cincinnati, at least, the audience…

New research from Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences suggests that stimulating the production of beige fat cells could reverse the effects of a slowing metabolism and help prevent age-related weight gain, obesity, and associated health disorders. Beige fat cells, a subtype of white adipose tissue, share thermogenic properties with brown adipose tissue, helping reduce blood sugar and fatty acids that contribute to heart disease. As people age, the response to cold temperatures, which stimulates beige fat…

Once again naked mole-rats have dealt scientists an exciting blow, with new research suggesting their anomalies in mammalian reproduction could hold the key to preserving human fertility.These virtually blind, subterranean-dwelling rodents have already defied many biological norms, with their imperviousness to cancer, resistance to pain, little sign of declining with age, and being able to convert energy like plants do in low-oxygen settings. Now, a new study has shed light on how the female rodents – which live to more…

This prequel to Jaume Collet-Serra’s well-regarded 2009 horror Orphan stars the now adult Isabelle Fuhrman, reprising the role she first played as an 11-year-old. William Brent Bell’s film navigates the age issue by careful use of perspective (but apparently no digital manipulation) that just about convinces us that she is more or less the same age as in the previous film. But the force of Fuhrman’s performance – as she demonstrated in last year’s The Novice, she can be a remarkable and unsettling presence in front of a…