And the continent of africa on the move stories about motivational change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. D. W. Multimedia series from africa. D. W. M. Dot com africa. Welcome to tomorrow to day the science show on d w coming up. Is there a scientific way to tell how old somebody is can we measure the aging process or even slow it down. Fish that small and why they are bellissimo no viable complex teen. Flying robots in disguise sent out to scare unsuspecting. The Epigenetic Clock is really only the beginning. Of what we want to do now is see if we can use these clocks to determine how molecules or genes are affecting the clock. Does that work its prime force the. The mystery of why we age is still unsolved but the first veil of that mystery has been lifted. Slowing down or even reversing the Aging Process Scientists might not be far from finding the answer but even without that our average Life Expectancy is increasing. Its estimated that in one hundred years time
Topics Determining peoples biological age; Factors that boost life expectancy; Collective intelligence; Flying scarecrows; Why is the sea salty . The first before we even see the light of day our biological clock has already started ticking. We grow older and birthdays pass by year after year but how and why do we age scientists are trying to understand more about the process so they can slow it down or even make it stop. This mission might want to drive me the most is finding out why we age the iota. And. Are in desperate to find out how it works. And how we can intervene through treatments and medications to slow the Aging Process for long. Biostatistician steve harvey whats for the you. Versity of california in los
good genes are a top draw a gift from your parents. People who survive well into old age are more likely to have children who also have long lives. The reason is in your genetic makeup. British researchers have discovered genes in seven regions of the brain that are direc
And the continent of africa on the move the stories about to move a vision of change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. D. W. Multimedia series food for. D. W. B. Dot com africa. Hitchin to the science show on t. W. Well come to you tomorrow today coming up. A look back in time to a flying reptile as big as a truck and. A critical view of Virtual Reality is poised to change our world. And we celebrate the artists return to switzerland and the citizen scientist who was stalking them. But first we head to the dark and mysterious world of the deep sea. Only around five percent of the worlds oceans have been explored their home to a vast range of creatures from delicate jellyfish to terrifying predators. Off the coast of North Western africa a team of researchers has discovered it gigantic structure on the sea bed built by corals. Of this amazing underwater landscape is being researched by a team from the university of braman a reef four hundred kilometers long and up to o
a dot com slash science drop us a line at e.w. underscores site tech on facebook d w dot science. if you put a specific extremely large number of silicon atoms together to create a sphere of a certain size it will weigh exactly one kilogram scientists have succeeded in doing that and why to define what a kilogram is in terms of a natural constant in this case the of a god or a constant. it s a way to check the accuracy of another new definition in terms of the planck constant this has me. been adopted as the official definition of world wide difficult stuff but it is important anyway to take the measure of things. it s a weighty matter welcomed the new kilogram we now take a look at a project based on that new official definition. since 2017 thomas and his team at the technical university. have been working on
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