Humans
Death researcher on pandemics and our fascination with dying
Pandemics of the past can teach us about the current one, says John Troyer, who studies how we use technology to alter the experience of death
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Health
Higher step count linked to lower yearly risk of death, up to a point
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Environment
Climate change-related injuries will kill thousands in the US
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Life
Life and death caught in Petri dishes in a nod to the art of mortality
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Life
Why the line between life and death is now more blurred than ever
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Life
From mushroom shrouds to cyber funerals, a 21st-century guide to death
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Life
Why almost everyone believes in an afterlife 鈥� even atheists
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Life
When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?
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Humans
Oldest ever illustrated book is a guide to Ancient Egyptian underworld
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Health
Make a living will if you want to decide how your life will end
For our own sakes, and for those we leave behind, we need to think about how we want to die. Otherwise someone else will decides what happens to you at the end
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UK roadsides could become burial grounds as graveyards are filling up
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Technology
What will your digital footprint tell people about you when you die?
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Humans
Oldest woman ever or impostor? The controversial case of Calment
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Health
Pig brains have been partly revived after death – what does this mean?
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