Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about the cutting edge research that could change the way humans age with help from author Andrew Steele.

You'll also learn about a 3,000 light year long break in one of the arms of the Milky Way.

Let's break some curiosity. Let's break some curiosity.

Let's satisfy it instead, actually.

That sounds better.

Humans have always sought a fountain of youth, something that could keep them young into old age and even let them live forever.

But it's only been recently that science has been able to tackle the problem of aging head

on.

And as you'll hear from today's guest, the advancements that have been made are really exciting.

Andrew Steele is a computational biologist and science writer and author of the book,egeless, the new science of getting older

without getting old.

And to start our conversation, we wanted to clarify.

By treating aging, he doesn't actually mean making humans live forever, right?

I think that's something that is often a misconception.

And when you talk about treating aging or even curing aging, which is something I talk about in the book.

People imagine sort of sci-fi dystopias and living forever and immortality and

you know I get a lot of those kinds of questions from journalists.

But fundamentally you know the reason I think this is this enormous humanitarian challenge is because

ageing is horrible.

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