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The Buddhist practice of planting trees in human ashes is saving space across the planet
The Science of Forensics
Learning From the Dead
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How You’ll Die On Mars
There’s a secret room in the basement of the female body
The earliest known human burial in Africa was a carefully laid down child
Ask Us Anything: What happens to your body when you die in space?
Congress is putting money toward gun violence research for the first time in decades
A mysterious cluster of deaths amongst Amish children has finally been solved
Why turkeys circle dead things—the creepy vigil, explained
The weirdest things we learned this week: virgin births, composted humans, and naked South Pole scientists
Changing your diet and taking supplements may not do anything for your heart health
The weirdest things we learned this week: Victorian sex drugs and deadly milk injections
How to donate your body to science
What the official COVID-19 mortality rate actually means
Dark matter has never killed anyone, and scientists want to know why
Teen bootleggers are making dangerous booze on TikTok
These charts show who is most vulnerable to COVID-19
This deadly mushroom can literally shrink your brain—and it’s probably more widespread than we thought
The weirdest things we learned this week: moving corpses, birth control placebos, and the story behind the hymen
A third of youth firearm deaths could be prevented without taking away a single gun
The weirdest things we learned this week: 10k steps a day is totally made up and Charmin knows exactly how you poop
After busting through a glass ceiling, Maya the agave plant is dying as dramatically as possible
Mourning a fictional character is perfectly valid
The weirdest things we learned this week: Blood-thirsty Bambi and 12-foot-tall birds
Catching COVID-19 from a dead body is possible, but there’s no proof it’s happened yet
We need a greener way to die
The weirdest things we learned this week: you can mummify yourself to death and Disney is full of military tech
Hate the gym? Grow a garden instead.
These states want you to eat more roadkill
The weirdest things we learned this week: starting fires with astronaut farts and dancing yourself to death
The weirdest things we learned this week: deadly molasses and the best way to battle cattle
Your ashes might say more about you than you’d think
You’re now more likely to die from opioids than in a car crash
How to prepare your digital life for your inevitable death
The latest summer forecast calls for deadly heat waves
New data shows that Fentanyl kills more people than heroin
The holiday season can be deadly for hospital patients
The CDC knows why U.S. life expectancy keeps dropping—but no one knows how to stop it
Humai Wants To Resurrect Humans Within 30 Years
A ‘male’ octopus surprised its keepers with a cloud of 10,000 babies
David Bowie Remembered By Fellow Spacemen And More
Tasers May Be Deadly, Study Finds
This New App Sends Notes From Beyond the Grave
The First Few Minutes After Death
The spookiest things we learned this week
As states scramble to find execution drugs, experts say it’s time to let lethal injection die
You really can be scared to death—here’s how
Autopsies are more important than ever. Here’s what they can tell us.
Cemeteries are the perfect spot to track our planet’s demise
Nursing homes aren’t equipped to provide life-saving A/C in the event of a power outage
Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought
Did A Meteorite Just Kill Someone In India?
A Map of Death
We can’t blame Hurricane Maria’s high death toll on the storm
Certain weather makes you more likely to get a rattlesnake bite
The weirdest things we learned this week: deadly insomnia, the prettiest poop, and emergency beekeepers
Guess which two countries account for a third of all gun deaths
Thanatomicrobiome: Microbial Life After Death
7 Ways Sitting Will Kill You
Archive Gallery: Diabolical Death Rays from the Pages of Popular Science
The weirdest things we learned this week: skin-peeling soup, secret drug toilets, and a chlorinated ocean
Bat Deaths Baffling Researchers
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