An underground room in Barcelona guards 35 office scanners placed in refrigerated chambers, a few meters from the now sunny Barceloneta beach. The American biologist Nicholas Stroustrup He has the key to the door of this strange place, invaded by the roar of a very powerful air conditioning. "This is the longevity machine", shouts Stroustrup, to overcome the noise. The scientist, born 39 years ago in Meyersville, carefully opens the lid of one of the scanning devices. It's full of hundreds of worms. Under another cover hundreds more appear. In the room, he estimates, there are more than 20,000 worms. The youngest ones do not stop moving: they restlessly explore their surroundings, unknown to them. It is easy to feel vertigo when looking through the microscope at the oldest people, already motionless and wrinkled, waiting for death. This unusual machine, Stroustrup proclaims, could reveal the secrets of human aging.
