Wealth adds nine years to ‘healthy’ life expectancy
The wealthiest men and women can expect to live an additional eight to nine years free from disability compared to people in the poorest groups, according to new UCL-led research. (more…)
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Make the Most of Your Golden Years by Choosing to Live Well
Growing older often gets a bum rap, and culturally, we tend to think youth is superior. For centuries, people even sought a literal fountain of youth, but thankfully, as we learn more about the aging process, it’s apparent there are ways to maintain vitality throughout our golden years without that mythical water. Here’s how you can truly enjoy optimal health as you grow older. (more…)
New Sustainable Production Method Could Advance Plastics and Pharmaceuticals
AUSTIN, Texas — A team of chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a new, cost-effective method for synthetically producing a biorenewable platform chemical called triacetic acid lactone (TAL) that can be used to produce innovative new drugs and sustainable plastics at an industrial scale, as described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)
New Sustainable Production Method Could Advance Plastics and Pharmaceuticals
AUSTIN, Texas — A team of chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a new, cost-effective method for synthetically producing a biorenewable platform chemical called triacetic acid lactone (TAL) that can be used to produce innovative new drugs and sustainable plastics at an industrial scale, as described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)
How Artificial Intelligence Could Change Everything
AUSTIN, Texas — A panel of academic and industrial thinkers has looked ahead to 2030 to forecast how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) might affect life in a typical North American city – in areas diverse as transportation, healthcare and education – and spur discussion of how to ensure the safe, fair and beneficial development of these rapidly emerging technologies. (more…)
GTRI Helps Develop Improved Telemedicine System to Connect Doctors with Autism Patients in Rural Georgia
To get the best care for her three autistic children, Mandi Larkin would drive three hours from her family’s home in Tifton, Ga., to Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta. The drive to and from Atlanta was exhausting. Missed work, missed school and the long drive were constant sources of stress. (more…)
The science of living better, longer
Did you ever wonder what science is doing to help us age more comfortably, in better health, doing the things we care about, for a longer span of time? (more…)
High-speed rail study finds that remote cities benefit from connection to global hubs
Bullet trains fuel real-estate booms, improve quality of life and create other unintended consequences by sharply reducing commute times from smaller cities to large megacities, economists from UCLA and China’s Tsinghua University observed in a new study in China. A similar dynamic, they said, could play out as California builds its own high-speed rail system.
Because high-speed rail effectively brings cities closer together by reducing travel times, it allows people to enjoy many of the benefits of big cities while living in “second-tier” cities far from the pollution and congestion. By making second-tier cities attractive to those who would otherwise flock to global hubs, bullet trains could act as a safety valve for crowded megacities in the developing world and ease the effects of overpopulation, the study authors report. (more…)
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