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, ...

The faint chemical traces in human blood can tell a story even after death. In laboratories at Linköping University and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the science of death remains a riddle (we’re still not exactly sure why the human body decides to die), the psychology of it has been one of our greatest conundrums. Others die, not us—or at least, ...

A terminal medical diagnosis can lead to fear of death. But studies have shown that the drug psilocybin along with therapy sessions can ease this fear. It may be that psychedelic experiences involve a ...

Serious questions have been raised about the validity of their determinations of cause and manner of death. In some cases, deaths certified as accidental or natural by one pathologist have been ...