death

A healthcare worker collects the nasal swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 testing amid a surge in Coronavirus cases across the...

Elena Lister, a psychiatrist at Columbia University who specializes in grief, says a healthy level of denial about death is necessary. But...

Quite a bit, according to the experts. For one thing, what we think is permanent isn’t. Digital storage systems can become unreadable...

This is mostly pretty cool. Beats the alternative, as they say. But one decidedly uncool thing about being almost 50 is that my...

A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to...

In stating his ambition to “explore their senses to better understand their lives,” Yong is true to his word. A longtime staffer...

But many people feel extremely uneasy about letting algorithms help to make decisions about whether people live or die, and rightfully so....

Scripted bits like this sounded stilted and strange, but as we moved on, with my mother recounting memories and speaking in her...

The environment was something of a shift for Drake, who had spent the previous seven years as the medical response director of...

By the 2000s, an algorithm had been developed in the US to identify recipients for donated kidneys. But some people were unhappy...