Researchers list the 10 lifestyle choices most likely to kill you
What doesn't kill you might, in fact, only be slowly killing you.
Tag: death
Study reveals true scale of one of the world’s deadliest plagues
"We now have a pathogen whose molecular history we can follow for thousands of years," says paper co-author McCormick. "The ...
Sudden infant death syndrome linked to a rare genetic mutation
Researchers believe a rare mutation associated with breathing muscles is the cause of SIDS.
Lead exposure might be responsible for 10 times more premature deaths than previously thought
Scientists have discovered that nearly 412,000 yearly deaths in the US can be attributed to lead contamination.
Death creeps through the brain as a “spreading wave” of silence and inactivity
In a dark way, these findings are quite soothing.
More than half of police killings in the United States were not officially documented
A disturbing new study shows that the government fails to accurately count law-enforcement related deaths in the United States.
Doctors record brain activity in a deceased patient 10 minutes after death
This is totally not normal and nobody knows for sure what happened.
Masaya Nakamura, the “father of Pac-Man” dies at age 91
His work touched millions of lives.
Whales mourn, and grieve, and feel the loss of a loved one — just like you or me
We all know the pain and harrowing loneliness of losing a loved one, and it seems whales do too.
Zombie genes are turned on even days after an organism dies
Even days after we die, gene expression is still active.
People faced with the threat of death go out shopping more
Death is ubiquitous and inevitable, and people have learned to cope with it in various ways. In some places of ...
Death occurs more slowly than thought, like a wave killing the body cell by cell
Studying death in humans has always been precarious. I mean, it's not like anyone would volunteer to be live dissected ...
Sleeping pills might put you to bed for good: linked with higher death risk
According to a recently released study authored by American physicians, sleeping pills are linked to a more-than fourfold risk of premature ...
[INFOGRAPHIC] The Truth About Sitting Down
Guess what you're doing right now? Same thing I'm doing as I type this in, I know, but sitting down ...
Everest clean up team goes up again
Everest is known as many things; first of all it's the highest point in Asia, and in the world. It's ...