"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." About five years ago, Yale School of Medicine neuroscientist Zvonimir Vrselja, Ph.D., and his colleagues ...

What happens to the human brain and body after death has remained a long-standing question. It’s intriguing to think about all the various functions of our body that ceases to operate while the heart ...

We’ve always thought of death, especially brain death, as a hard line. Once it happens, that’s it, right? But some new, really interesting research is making scientists rethink that. They’ve been ...

Scientists were astonished to find that recirculating a cocktail of preserving agents through a severed pig’s head caused the animal’s brain to show signs of life. As New Scientist reports, basic ...

Diverse team of doctors consult on a TV screen showing MRI scan with brain images. [iStock Photos] A person declared brain-dead does not recover or wake up-they eventually die, according to medical ...

Death is one of life's final mysteries, but it might not be quite as final as you think, because even the clinically dead can still sense the world around them.