Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Most research on aging has been done on model organisms with limited life spans, such as flies and worms. Host Meagan Cantwell talks to science writer Yao-Hua Law about how long-living social insects—some of which survive for up to 30 years—can provide new insights into aging. Also in this episode, host Sarah Crespi talks with Noshir Contractor, the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, about his AAAS session on keeping humans in harmony during long space missions and how mock missions on Earth are being applied to plans for a crewed mission to Mars. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts About the Science Podcast [Image:TerriAnneAllen/Unsplash ; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Yao Hua Law; Meagan Cantwell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.9	Welcome to the science podcast for March 26, 2021.
1:12.6	I'm Megan Cantwell.
1:14.6	Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in Science and the Sister Journals.
1:20.6	First up, science writer Yao Hua Lau joins me to discuss using social insects as models for aging. How does a queen be end up living so much longer than a worker bee?
1:31.9	Then, senior podcast producer Sarah Crespi brings us a segment from the AAAS meeting last month.
1:38.3	She talks with researcher and a sheer contractor about how to make sure teams taking the three-year trip to Mars get along.
1:49.5	Most research on aging has been conducted on model organisms, including mice, worms, and flies.
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