Aventine Research Institute

Aventine is a non-profit research institute that commissions and shares work that sheds light on how rapid technological advancements and disruptive change will affect the ways we live, work and experience life in the decades to come.

This season of The World as You’ll Know It goes inside the science of human longevity. Thanks to vaccines and other public health measures, we have already added 30 years to our average life expectancy since 1900. Scientists are now looking at new approaches to living longer, living healthier and maybe even curing aging itself. Hosted by Carl Zimmer, science columnist for The New York Times, we meet the scientists, researchers and economists on the frontier of this human development and look deeply as issues like cognition, biohacking, Alzheimer's and how we remake society to light of this profound shift.