A comparison between a healthy brain and one that belongs to someone who is brain dead. (Credit: Fusionspark Media Inc.) (Source) Each day, individuals are admitted to the emergency room with ...

While not as thrilling as the suspended animation shown in sci-fi movies where the action involves long interstellar journeys, humanity is ready to start animation suspension tests for medical ...

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In The Princess Bride, the always sagacious Miracle Max—aka Billy Crystal—points out “there’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.” And he wasn’t wrong. Death has always been something ...

Suspended animation: It’s a common concept used in science fiction, in which doctors preserve humans’ lives by suspending them between life and death. But now, the seemingly fictional idea may soon ...

Suspended animation has allowed many a sci-fi character to travel to a distant corner of space in a state of dormancy, only reanimating once they’ve arrived at their otherworldly destination. Now, the ...

Knife- and gunshot-wound victims will be placed in suspended animation as the first human trials begin on this emergency life-saving technique. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Some animals, like mice and birds, are able to bring their body temperature and metabolism way down to conserve energy, going into a sleep-like state called torpor. Now researchers have identified the ...