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
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
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
24 April 2019
Jeanne Calment apparently lived to be 122, but divisive new research suggests she wasn't who she seemed. There are huge implications for our understanding of longevity
8 November 2017
Every culture has a different death ritual – some involving levels of intimacy that would be unthinkable to people in the West. Here are just five of them
9 August 2017
If you can't restart a stopped heart within 5 minutes, brain damage starts. But using the lungs as a heat exchanger to chill the blood may buy us more time
2 November 2016
The only certain thing in life is that it will one day end. That knowledge is perhaps the defining feature of the human condition.
