# Revisited: is curiosity the key to ageing well?

An episode of [Science Weekly](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/136697669), 25 Dec 2025, 17 min.

Audio: https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/12/15-45531-gnl.sci.20251225.eb.curiosity_repeat.mp3

Psychologists have typically believed that we become less curious as we age, but recent research has shown curiosity actually becomes more targeted and specific in our later years. In this episode from September, Madeleine Finlay hears from Dr Mary Whatley, an assistant professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, and Dr Matthias Gruber of Cardiff University’s Brain Research Imaging Centre to find out why we change in this way, and how maintaining broad curiosity into older age can help keep our brains young. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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