This world of consciousness beyond the body,” he wrote, “is the true new frontier, not just of science but of humankind ...

When someone dies, that's generally thought of as the end of all life within them, but it turns out death is a bit more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The space between life and death has fascinated scientists, mystics, and near-death experiencers for centuries. It’s the strange, ...

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 ...

Determining whether a death is murder or natural often comes down to forensics. In New York City, a medical examiner and his assistant redefined how to do it. Author Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize ...