Minneapolis — When the University of Minnesota offered to let me experience what it’s like to die, naturally I said yes. Aren’t we all morbidly curious about the undiscovered country, as Hamlet put it ...

With each breath, four out of every five molecules we inhale are nitrogen. This colourless, odourless gas makes up nearly 80% of the air that sustains us – yet it plays no direct role in keepin ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Drowning is an agonizing way to go. Not that it’s physically painful; more that the minutes drag on and ...

Medical school liaison librarian Ryn Gagen uses a Virtual Reality device to experience a virtual death, an experience in the school’s VR lab in which you are given the point of view of someone on ...