Cryonics is the freezing and storing of a body after death until a future medical technology can restore that person to full health. The ability to revive a person from a frozen state remains unproven ...

Bart Kosko, a professor of electrical engineering at USC and author of "Heaven in a Chip" (Random House, 2000), is on the science advisory board of the nonprofit Alcor cryonics corporation. Go ahead ...

Though they’re more typically used to explain the process of dealing with the loss of loved ones, the five stages of grief can also be applied to our own thoughts of fleeting mortality. There are ...

In pursuit of life everlasting, some turn to God. Others turn to science. Or rather, something science-ish. If you've ever hoped to be cryogenically frozen, you might come across a legal hurdle: while ...

The news that a 14-year-old U.K. girl has undergone cryonic suspension after dying from cancer has created headlines around the world, putting a spotlight on the need for cryonics regulation. Cryonics ...

It's the stuff of science fiction: chilling your body inside a stainless steel chamber for years on end. But is cryonics a way to reverse death or is it just a pipe dream? Claire Reilly was a video ...

Amid the hot desert landscape of Scottsdale, Arizona, some people would rather be frozen—literally. To date, 199 people have had their heads and bodies cryopreserved at the Alcor Life Extension ...