Researchers have developed a model to explain the science of near-death experiences. Others have challenged it.

A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to ...

For generations, medicine treated death as a clean line: the instant the heart stops, the person is gone. A wave of new research is dismantling that certainty, revealing a messy, lingering borderland ...

In 2016, his close partner, AI engineer Eugenia Kuyda, rebuilt him as a chatbot, a grief experiment that later evolved into ...

Near-death experiences can have lasting, life-changing effects, and new University of Virginia School of Medicine research sheds light on the types of counseling and support that can best help people ...