A team of researchers at Google-owned Calico Life Sciences LLC has found that the naked mole rat defies Gompertz's mortality law. In their paper published in eLife, the group describes their study of ...

Researchers from the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) and the Robert Koch Institute have discovered a law for the relationship between mortality and age in people with diabetes: According to this law, ...

A recent paper in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that humans have yet to reach their maximum age and that there might not even be one. In the paper, "Mortality postponement and compression at older ...

Will Gompertz, artistic director at the Barbican arts centre in London, has been appointed the director of Sir John Soane’s Museum in a surprise move. He replaces Bruce Boucher who retires at the end ...

Will Gompertz gives the game away with the title. As he writes in the introduction, his book is aimed at people who suspect that modern and contemporary art is a sham, "but, now that fashions have ...