Can we live forever?

If you could take a pill to halt ageing and become immortal, would you? Laura, Jasmin and Ellie take a look at some long-lived species, discuss just some of the science behind ageing and decide, if they could, whether they'd want to stay in their biological bodies forever or upload themselves to live digitally.

Read more about the science stories they discuss:

• Determining how long the Greenland shark lives for
• Jonathan the tortoise
• Ming the clam
• Earth's longest living organism
• Some other long-lived animals and plants
• Benefits of intermittent fasting studied by Cambridge scientists
• Genetics studies based on a tiny worm
• https://dogagingproject.org/
• https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-across-the-body-talk-to-each-other-about-aging-20240108
• Blue zones
• An anti-ageing pill for dogs

Read some of the books they've read:

• Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secret to Longevity
• The Code Breaker