This world of consciousness beyond the body,” he wrote, “is the true new frontier, not just of science but of humankind ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The space between life and death has fascinated scientists, mystics, and near-death experiencers for centuries. It’s the strange, ...

For centuries, humans have thought of death as a single, dramatic instant - the final heartbeat, the last breath, the moment when the light fades from the eyes. But modern science, ancient philosophy, ...

If the science of death remains a riddle (we’re still not exactly sure why the human body decides to die), the psychology of it has been one of our greatest conundrums. Others die, not us—or at least, ...

Laboratories that once focused on easing the final moments of life are now probing whether those moments are as final as medicine has long assumed. A wave of experiments on brains, organs, and ...

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 ...