Latest death Stories
Meet the yogis who hang out in cadaver labs
Five things you might not know about the plague (not including the fact that it still exists)
Burial is becoming the most boring thing to do with your dead body
Sleeping in on the weekend might be good for you, but it’s not going to fix all your problems
Mystery meat: scientists are investigating the roadkill we never get to see
A pet’s death can hurt more than losing a fellow human
If you love staying up late and sleeping in, doing otherwise might actually hurt your health
The Olympic sport most likely to kill you
How people die from the flu
This year’s Super Bowl stadium is an avian death trap
Humans may be scaring narwhals to death
Male woolly mammoths lived fast, died young, and left more corpses
One cave’s losing battle against a deadly bat fungus
Archive Gallery: Diabolical Death Rays from the Pages of Popular Science
The Black Death helped reveal how long humans have polluted the planet
Charles Dickens’s belief in spontaneous combustion sparked Victorian London’s hottest debate
Stop eating your damn placentas
This river ecosystem hinges on thousands of drowned, rotting wildebeest
Eating potatoes won’t actually kill you
What is botulism, anyway?
How plagues help scientists puzzle out the past
Forensic scientists caught a deer munching on a human carcass for the first time ever
A disturbing number of humpback whales are dying off the east coast
Death by banana peel? Black hole? The science behind your most absurd nightmares.
Here’s what it’s like to get thrown into a volcano
We need more ‘body farms’ to figure out how corpses rot
Some corpses may mysteriously heat up after death
How to not die in a blizzard
A mystery with a shocking twist: Death by indoor lightning
This is what happens to your body as you die of dehydration
How New Zealand is avoiding hundreds of exploding whale corpses
Will a cryogenically-frozen corpse ever come back to life?
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Teenage cancer victim wins the right to be cryogenically preserved
Assisted suicide is now legal in Colorado, thanks to overwhelming voter support
New Evidence Suggests ‘Lucy’ Probably Died By Falling Out Of A Tree
Pat Summitt’s Death Reminds Us Of How Little We Understand Alzheimer’s Disease
Remembering Albert Einstein
A Spouse’s Death Can Make Your Heart Miss A Beat
Thanatomicrobiome: Microbial Life After Death
David Bowie Remembered By Fellow Spacemen And More
Humai Wants To Resurrect Humans Within 30 Years
Tasers May Be Deadly, Study Finds
This New App Sends Notes From Beyond the Grave
Will The Milky Way Get Strangled To Death?
Bone Eating ‘Zombie’ Worm Has Been Around For 100 Million Years
Gut Microbes Take Over Your Body When You Die
How Carl Sagan Described Death To His Young Daughter
How To Euthanize A Whale
How Long Could You Survive In A Coffin If You Were Buried Alive?
FYI: Can Wireless Electricity Kill People?
What Blood Shows Scientists About Suicide Risk
What Pig Carcasses Could Teach Coroners About Human Death
Artificial Intelligence App Will Keep Tweeting As You After You Die
7 Ways Sitting Will Kill You
Video: Dutch Artist Turns His Dead Cat Into a Flying Quadcopter
Tiny Cilia Inside Corpse’ Noses Could Be a More Reliable Indicator of Time of Death
What Happens to Your Digital Data After You Die?
Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators
Immortalize Yourself In Music: Have Your Remains Pressed As a Vinyl Record
Prototype Coffin Screws Into the Ground to Save Space
New Corpse-Detection System Finds Where the Bodies Are Buried
Find Out How You’ll Die, In 4 Easy Online Steps
China Reports the First Human Nano-Fatalities
Training Machines to Detect the Smell Of Death