Brushes with death can have lasting effects, but very few studies bother to ask children about them.

At the 15th 'Behind and Beyond the Brain' Symposium, hosted by the Bial Foundation, experts in the fields of neuroscience, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The space between life and death has fascinated scientists, mystics, and near-death experiencers for centuries. It’s the strange, ...

For generations, medicine treated death as a clean line: the instant the heart stops, the person is gone. A wave of new research is dismantling that certainty, revealing a messy, lingering borderland ...

We've all heard the stories about the bright light, your life flashing before your eyes, or maybe even a mysterious figure/voice telling you it's not your time yet. But what really happens after a ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden “death switch” in the brain that may be driving Alzheimer’s disease—and even found a way to turn it off in mice. The culprit is a toxic pairing of two proteins that, ...