--- description: This is why women outlive men, military genius doesn’t win wars and more. title: This Is Why Women Outlive Men image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Five Best Ideas](/tag/five-best-ideas/) ## Five Best Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Is Why Women Outlive Men by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 5, 2017 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 5, 2017 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**This is why women outlive men.**](http://aging.nautil.us/feature/189/why-men-dont-live-as-long-as-women "undefined") By Richard G. Bribiescas in _Nautilus_ **2\.** [**Military genius doesn’t win wars.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/wars-are-not-won-by-military-genius-or-decisive-battles "undefined") By Cathal J. Nolan at _Aeon_ **3\.** [**There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up.**](http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up "undefined") By Jasmin Fox-Skelly at _BBC Earth_ **4\.** [**With this soft, human-tissue-like synthetic retina, there’s new hope for the visually impaired.**](http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-05-04-oxford-student-creates-first-synthetic-retina "undefined") By the _University of Oxford_ **5\.** [**Two-factor authentication — getting a text to confirm when you log on – is supposed to make the web more secure, right? Wrong.**](https://motherboard.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/we-were-warned-about-flaws-in-the-mobile-data-backbone-for-years-now-2fa-is-screwed "undefined") By Joseph Cox in _Motherboard_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4768705/this-is-why-women-outlive-men/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4768705/this-is-why-women-outlive-men/"},"headline":"This Is Why Women Outlive Men","datePublished":"2017-05-05T16:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:52.758Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4768705/this-is-why-women-outlive-men/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Military","medicine","Innovation","Disease","Security","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4768705/this-is-why-women-outlive-men/","name":"This Is Why Women Outlive Men"}}]}] ```