July 27, 2026 • Beginning Aug. 1, NPR Music will publish a week-long list of stories and podcast episodes exploring the ...
Why do some brains survive long after death when most other soft tissue decays? That's the question a research team led by ...
People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a once-forested hillside, or a ghostly white coral reef, may evoke tragedy and despair.
A dead person is now an interactive AI persona reconstructed from his online persona and recorded memories. Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin hopes it’s an early step in recreating a person long ...
Dead bodies can provide organs for transplants, now they might become a source of stem cells too. Huge numbers of stem cells can still be mined from bone marrow five days after death to be potentially ...
A Royal Caribbean ship arrived in Alaska on Friday, June 19, carrying an endangered fin whale. It's unknown if speed was a factor in this death A pregnant endangered fin whale was found dead on the ...
The whole question of what happens after we die has haunted us since the beginning of time. We try to find comfort, answers, or simply something to hold onto when faced with our mortality. Religion ...