A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to it after we die.

Sometimes it’s the living who haunt the dead. A New York primary care doctor redefined the phrase “life after death” after finding that the brain remains active even after one’s heart stops, as ...

People may be conscious for several hours after they have died, a study has claimed. Evidence has been found that ...

Just before it ceases functioning, the brain may make a last-ditch effort to find unresolved purpose or a reason to stay ...

The human brain could remain conscious for up to several hours after death, according to a new study. Data has revealed that some people may be alert to their surroundings despite being declared ...

A researcher in near-death experiences says our definition of 'death' should change.

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 ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a widely reported yet poorly understood phenomenon. Though there is no agreed-upon definition of an NDE, it has been described as “profound psychological events with ...

We often view death as a light being switched off suddenly. The moment a human’s pulse stops, we assume the person is gone. But new research by the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...