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Cryonics is often framed as a personal gamble, but its real impact may be societal. If large numbers of people can pause ...

BREDO MORSTØL’S LIFE was relatively quiet and ordinary. Born in 1900, the Norwegian was a director of parks and recreation in ...

You put a dying person in suspended animation until, possibly thousands of years from now, medical science is able to cure ...

On January 12, 1967, something unprecedented happened in a nursing home in Glendale, California. James Bedford, a 73-year-old retired psychology professor, became the first human being ever ...

The story has sparked debates about cryogenics and fidelity. But it also tells us something deeper about our responses to loss One of the last remaining fun things about the internet is getting to ...

Cryonics has moved from the world of science fiction to a real-world pursuit, driven by the belief that future medicine may one day reverse the effects of aging, disease and even death. It is about ...

A Chinese man who cryogenically froze his dead wife has sparked an online moral debate after Chinese media revealed he had been dating a new girlfriend as his former partner lay preserved in liquid ...

The adaptation of Don DeLillo’s New York Times best-selling novel will begin shooting in São Paulo in early 2026. “Zero K,” which marks the fourth collaboration between Teixeira and Katagas, follows a ...

A high-tech cryonics start-up is offering to freeze patients in liquid nitrogen after death, one day bringing them back to life for a cost of $200,000 (£165,000). Europe’s leading cryopreservation ...