In the end, the task force decided that a person could be declared dead when they had “sustained either irreversible ...

Despite claims of being humane and painless, the use of nitrogen gas for executions and assisted suicide causes air hunger, panic and violent physiological distress.

An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed light on a variety of paleontological mysteries, including why so many ...

In Alzheimer's, brain cells die too soon. In cancer, dangerous cells don't die soon enough. That's because both diseases alter the way cells decide when to end their lives, a process called programmed ...

Heat-loving plants that thrive in California's Death Valley could hold the key to growing crops in a changing climate.

Science fiction, as one character in Nnedi Okorafor’s metafictional Death of the Author puts it, is about “being different, ...