Humans have been pondering the nature of death since prehistoric times, with evidence of funeral practices dating back to early hominids more than 400,000 years ago. In the millennia since, our ...

'Death pool' discovered at the bottom of the sea that kills everything 'immediately' ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Xinhua Hospital in Shanghai in 2021. - Wang Gang/CFOTO/Future Publishing/Barcroft Media/Getty Images A top Chinese medical ...

Zilong Qiu is now being investigated by his university more than a year after his patient likely died from his team's experimental gene-editing therapy. Reading time 4 minutes Last year, a ...

A study tracking more than 340,000 adults for over a decade found that heavy drinking increased the risk of death regardless of beverage type. At lower levels, however, the picture became more ...

Serious questions have been raised about the validity of their determinations of cause and manner of death. In some cases, deaths certified as accidental or natural by one pathologist have been ...

After a string of poisonings from “death cap” mushrooms — one of them fatal — California health officials are urging residents not to eat any foraged mushrooms unless they are trained experts. Doctors ...

Determining whether a death is murder or natural often comes down to forensics. In New York City, a medical examiner and his assistant redefined how to do it. Author Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize ...