Death by Extreme Heat is a 21st Century Death
July has ended, and with it the hottest month ever recorded in human history.
Category: Death in Science
Could tiny-brained humans have actually dug graves half a million years ago?
Deep inside a South African cave called Rising Star, scientists have made an incredible discovery—a species of ancient humans that appears to have buried their ...
Do You Trust A Robot Car To Save Your Life?
Would you trust a robot with your life? Or perhaps the more appropriate question is, would you trust a robotic car with the ability to ...
What is dead, and when do we really die?
Last month, researchers at Yale University published the astounding results that organs from a pig they had killed by inducing cardiac arrest were still showing ...
The Many Ways to Die by Climate Change – Hurricane Ida And A World of Compounding Disasters
Climate scientists have been ringing the alarm for years. Bigger storms, more floods, more droughts, more fires. And now it is suddenly seeming all too ...
Temperatures Soar And A New Way Of Dying Emerges—Death By Heat
Another heat dome is building over the Western United States, more records are expected to shatter and unfortunately, there may well be more deaths too.
Jeff Bezos is Headed to Space – What Happens If He Dies there?
Earlier this month, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, shared with the world that he will be headed into space. While the internet has ...
AS THE 2020 HURRICANE SEASON ROARS ON, LET’S NOT FORGET THE STRANGE AND DEADLY STORMS OF 1780
Many Americans remember Katrina, Sandy, Andrew, Hugo, but as Hurricane Laura comes ashore we send our thoughts to first responders and the people of the ...
What’s the definition of death? A case in California has doctors baffled.
“Nailah didn’t understand how Jahi could be dead when her skin was still warm and soft and she occasionally moved her arms, ankles, and hips.”
Elephants Love Their Dead – Is That Why We Love Them?
Do elephants have the power to vote?
Hurricane Harvey “Lonely Deaths”
Hurricane Harvey is responsible for killing at least 47 people in Texas. According to a story last week in the New York Times, at least ...
These monkey mothers actually carry around the corpses of their young
Imagine a new mother walking down a sunny sidewalk in a big city. She has a coffee in one hand, a bag over her shoulder, ...
Playing Dead For The Next Hundred Years – Hibernation Preparation Tips
A new season, a New Year. This is a chance to blossom forth with new ideas and plans, or dig our heads deeper into the ...
Who will be the first human to die on Mars?
“The sun is gradually expanding,” Elon Musk told a rapt audience in 2013 at SXSW, the famous media, music and technology conference held in Austin, ...
