For generations, medicine treated death as a clean line: the instant the heart stops, the person is gone. A wave of new research is dismantling that certainty, revealing a messy, lingering borderland ...

Death and the possibility of an afterlife have fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists throughout history. Fear, ...

Groundbreaking research revealed that many genes in mice, zebrafish, and humans actually become more active after clinical death. This suggests that we need to redefine death, because it’s not a ...

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.

I n 1959, an 18-month-old Lebanese boy named Imad Elawar began speaking strange words. Over the next few years, his parents began to discern a narrative, one involving a village called “Khirby,” a ...