Back in July, Russia launched a satellite into space that carried a harem of geckos so scientists could study sex in weightlessness. But bad news came this week with the report that the “sexy space ...

Philosopher Susana Monsó's book Playing Possum, newly translated into English next month, makes the strong case that many animals big and small understand the concept of death. Reading time 8 minutes ...

A new study has revealed what animals do after they have feigned death in order to avoid being killed by a predator and what the context of this behavior is. A new study led by scientists from the ...

Death is often seen as the end of life, but science offers a different way to understand it. According to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the human body does not simply disappear after death.

What happens in the brain at the moment of death has fascinated doctors, philosophers, and ordinary people for centuries. Myths and religious traditions have long spoken of a “life review,” where your ...

Throughout history, humans have given a lot of thought to death. We’ve grappled with our mortality, created elaborate burial rituals, and contemplated how best to mourn the loss of a loved one. But ...

Dr. Michael Stanley’s op-ed “‘Brain Death’ Marks the True End of a Person’s Life” (Aug. 23) seems much less controversial than arguments defining the beginning of life, especially with the ...

One of mankind’s most reassuring cosmic thinkers died last week. Death came at 61 to cool, unruffled Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge University astronomer, in a Cambridge nursing home. To ...