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 ...

In hospitals and trauma units around the world, some patients who come close to death describe extraordinary and vivid experiences. They talk about floating above their own bodies, traveling through ...

A dead person is now an interactive AI persona reconstructed from his online persona and recorded memories. Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin hopes it’s an early step in recreating a person long ...

Imagine attending a funeral where the person who has died speaks directly to you, answering your questions and sharing memories. This happened at the funeral of Marina Smith, a Holocaust educator who ...