The question of what happens after death sits at the edge of science because researchers can study dying brains, people who ...
Death can look like a single moment: the heart stops, breathing ends and the person is declared dead. At the level of individual organs, tissues and cells, however, the transition is not ...
When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...
Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It’s a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants, for ...
New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thought After being driven to a hospital where she couldn’t be treated, Patient One was ...
Popular Mechanics recently re-shared an article on social media with the audacious title, “A Groundbreaking Scientific Discovery Shows that We Can Reverse Death.” Is that true? It depends on how you ...
Determining whether a death is murder or natural often comes down to forensics. In New York City, a medical examiner and his assistant redefined how to do it. Author Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize ...
The foundation of good science is that its results are infinitely repeatable, says Montgomery County Assistant D.A. Warren Diepraam – you can test a theory and get the same result over and over, and ...