Laura was a force of nature, she was a natural, an authentic, un-self-conscious whirling dervish, who got more done in one day than most of us get done in a year.

VANCOUVER – After one of the strangest, most memorable, and contentious Stanley Cup Finals in recent history , it comes down to 60 minutes.

PITTSBURGH – Despite what the tattoo on his stomach says, Matt Brown isn’t immortal. Following a recent submission loss to Brian Foster – his third straight defeat in the UFC – Brown assumed his octagon career was dead. He admits those days were dark, and accepting the mortality was harder than he expected. But after returning home and playing with his twin boys, he eventually realized there’s …

When expressed , the gene located on Chromosome number 5p15.33 activates the enzyme telomerase. Human cells can keep living and dividing indefinitely when telomerase is continually present; i.e. the cells become immortal.

Dying is a touchy subject. Euthanasia makes people upset. Whichever side of the debate you are on, you are caught between the hard place of human suffering and the rock of informed autonomous free choice. Euthanasia is really a debate about not dying of natural causes. For so long, we’ve understood death to be only OK if it was natural or demonstrably accidental. Anything else was murder …

Who wouldn’t want to live forever? Who would? This is largely an academic debate for now, but perhaps not for long.

LAND O’LAKES, FLORIDA – Artix Entertainment, the indie game development studio that delivers download-free browser-based RPGs to 130 million users, is holding a unique contest for players to enter for a chance to be immortalized in the popular new MMORPG HeroSmash as NPCs. Winners will have their characters put permanently in-game as quest givers, shop keepers, trainers, spies, etc…

[Cross-posted at Scientific American Blogs. Thanks to Bora Z. for the invitation.] The topic of “Life after death” raises disreputable connotations of past-life regression and haunted houses, but there are a large number of people in the world who believe in some form of persistence of the individual soul after life ends. Clearly this is [...]

The topic of “life after death” raises disreputable connotations of past-life regression and haunted houses, but there are a large number of people in the world who believe in some form of persistence of the individual soul after life ends. Clearly this is an important question, one of the most important ones we can possibly think of in terms of relevance to human life. If science has something …

share: digg facebook twitter People don’t even have empathy for their fellow human beings and cruelty and murder abound. At the beginning of the story, our feisty 130-year old PI protagonist, Grace Harper, is hired to complete a mission: she must discover the whereabouts of Jordan Lacklin, the scientist responsible for the ‘virus’ that started The Change about 400 years ago while working on the …

Only 15% of people would like to live forever and just 9% would like to live to more than 100, according to new research.

Why are we always driven by the elusive goal of living forever? A new book argues that we should give up on perfectability and embrace our mortality. Malcolm Jones talks to philosopher John Gray.

Results of a new ComRes opinion poll commissioned by Dying Matters, a coalition backed by several major charities which promotes discussion of end-of-life issues, shows that only 15% want to live forever.

With an accordion-like camera and straw hat, Glen Gorsuch made his way back to the battlefield without a weapon.

share: digg facebook twitter At the age of 16, Christine was diagnosed with Stargardt’s Disease, a condition that effects the retina and causes a loss of central vision. The Immortality Virus is a far-future science fiction novel that asks: “What if the entire human race stopped aging?” It takes place in 2450, four centuries after The Change (when humans stopped aging), and tells the story of a …

The basic trouble with health care is simple — and disagreeable. Our reluctance to face this fundamental problem is preventing a truly frank debate over how to control runaway health care costs that are pushing America toward economic crisis.

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“The first immortal human beings are probably living among us today.” That is the opening line of my 1998 nonfiction book, “Immortality.”

I’ll never forget the Raw 8 days removed from Wrestlemania 27. I was still coming down from my Wrestlemania high and had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that wrestling was not going to be nearly as interesting as it had been for the previous three months.

Only aggressive cancer cells that spread have the ability to live forever, providing new clues to the best treatment