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Peter Cummings is a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who explores what happens in the brain at the threshold between life and death. His research focuses on how the human mind and brain adapt ...

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability ...

The universe seems stable, but an unlikely shift in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space, could ...

The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend much of their lives underwater without ...

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Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to ditch draft heat safety regulations ...