15 May 2023
Lacking a set bed and wake time may influence our body's various psychological processes, affecting our health. Alternatively, irregular sleep habits could be caused by a pre-existing medical condition that itself raises the risk of death over a given...
1 March 2023
We still don't know if freezing humans for a second life is possible, but a gripping new podcast from Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley takes a deep look inside the practice
22 February 2023
Two volunteers sign up for euthanasia to help a research project when evidence of consciousness after death emerges. The idea’s great, but the script could use a bit more life
18 October 2022
Ecologists have started to recognise the competition between younger and older generations within the same species, with some startling conclusions about nature’s requirement for mortality
30 June 2022
Amid the pandemic, the life expectancy of American Indian or Alaska Native people is thought to have fallen by nearly five years from 2019 to 2021, the biggest decline of any ethnic group in the US
26 April 2022
Oscar winners alive today are expected to die aged 81.3, on average, compared with 76.4 for their fellow nominees and 76.2 for their unnominated co-stars
9 December 2020
Quantum information can never be destroyed, so some of the essence of you could live on after death – but it’s not going to help the physical you
24 August 2020
An unusual 3700-year-old grave unearthed in Spain contains the remains of someone who appears to have been buried from only the shoulders down. The finding shows how little we know about some ancient burial practices
17 April 2020
The covid-19 pandemic has led to rushed guidelines for doctors making treatment decisions, and has encouraged more people to make advance decisions on CPR and ventilation
25 March 2020
Pandemics of the past can teach us about the current one, says John Troyer, who studies how we use technology to alter the experience of death
