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Will Cryogenically Frozen People Ever Be Revived?
Corpse-freezing hasn’t exactly gone mainstream, but most people are now familiar with the concept: you lay out a ton of cash, sign some papers, and spend a couple post-death decades in a cutting-edge meat locker, calmly awaiting the conditions for your eventual revival. Hundreds of cold, dead Americans, or dead, cold American brains, depending on…
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First Observation Of Rigour Mortis In Worms Could Help Us Understand Death By Old Age
Living creatures do amazing things. They grow toward the sun, build cities, lay eggs, and some even bone. But living things must die, and when they do, they tend to get smelly and mushy pretty quickly. But the moments after death, before decomposition, can be amazing in their own right. Scientists have just learned a…