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Black and white photo of Iron Age mass grave bones in Serbia

One of Europe’s largest Iron Age mass graves contains mostly women and children

bones laid out in a grave

Stone Age burial ground reveals deep family trees

By Margherita Bassi

Stirling, Scotland - August 1, 2020, old medieval cemetery around Port of Menteith Parish Church

Medieval elite still received fancy burials despite disease stigma

Hobart, Tasmania - December 27 2016: road side warning sign for Tasmanian kangaroo, tasmanian devil and echidna wildlife

Roadkill is a surprising and untapped source for scientists

Funeral urn on table next to four lit candles

80% of Americans may opt for cremation by 2045

Neolithic burial pit

Electrical workers uncover 5,000-year-old burial pits in Germany

Archeologist working in Roman cellar dig site

Ancient Roman infant burials uncovered under Switzerland housing project

Mummified priest holding cross in coffin with skull blurred out

Mummified Austrian priest’s rectum played important role in preservation

Cut and impact marks indicating cannibalism on various human parts of the skeleton from the Maszycka Cave.

Butchered skulls point to Europe’s Ice Age cannibals

A monkey carrying dead offspring.

How animals react to death: From vigils to cannibalism

By Lauren Leffer

Skeletal remains of child buried in vampire grave

Medieval child ‘vampire burial’ exhumed near Polish cathedral

Close up of Screaming Woman mummy's face

‘Screaming woman’ may solve a 3,500-year-old mummy mystery

The world’s oldest wine contains a cremated Roman aristocrat

Three alkaline hydrolysis machines for pet remains at the Bio-Response manufacturing facility

Inside the warehouse that builds machines to liquify dead bodies

By Helen Bradshaw

a panoramic view of the milky way galaxy

What would happen if the Milky Way died?

By Tatyana Woodall

Black person with short gray hair in a red collared shirt wearing a COVID mask looking directly into the camera

Machine learning is finally helping us track COVID deaths faster and more accurately

By Kate Baggaley

medicine cabinet with red wine, caviar

Why this French hospital serves dying patients wine and caviar

By Jessica Wapner

Our brains may remain active before, and in the moments after, death.

What the recording of a dying human brain could tell us

planets lined up over an art illustration

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Death ‘by planet’ was surprisingly common in the 1600s

By Popular Science Team

a person with their head down in their laptop

Stress can literally kill you. Here’s how.

By Leigh Cowart