It’s hard to begrudge anyone who wants to live longer. Death is an unknown—the ultimate frontier—and therefore scary for many people. Medicine is aimed at improving and extending healthy lives, so ...

Cryogenics, the science of extremely low temperatures, has captivated both the scientific community and the general public. Its application to human freezing, known as cryonics, brings hope for future ...

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 ...

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 ...