20 November 2019
This stunning image of Petri dishes full of butterfly wings, mushrooms, moss, glass and metal by Suzanne Anker is a modern reworking of paintings designed to remind us that life is vanity
20 November 2019
Sentient machines with empathy and morality are coming. We urgently need to make some life-and-death decisions about their rights
20 November 2019
Most people hold curiously similar ideas about life after death, suggesting there is more to it than religion, fear or an inability to imagine not existing
20 November 2019
Death isn't what it used to be, and with so many end-of-life options to choose from it is never too soon to start contemplating your demise
20 November 2019
Brains resurrected after death, communications with people in comas and advances in cryogenics all suggest that life's end is less final than we thought
10 July 2019
For our own sakes, and for those we leave behind, we need to think about how we want to die. Otherwise someone else will decides what happens to you at the end
6 March 2019
Hear forensic anthropologist Sue Black talk about her book, explore the fast-warming world of water, and take a trip through the history of mind
22 August 2018
Life expectancy has grown massively in recent decades, but in the UK the gains are starting to ease off. Could dementia, austerity, or something else be to blame?
9 August 2018
Biologists have watched death spread across a living cell for the first time, and discovered that it travels in a steady wave in the same way that wildfires do
