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 ...

George Nichols IV, the 27-year-old behind Mailroom Season 2 winner Suspended Animation, treats his brand like the cartoons he grew up watching. Each capsule is like its own episode, themed after a ...

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 ...

It could take months if not years to travel to faraway planets. Science fiction has long suggested that for humans to survive such a lengthy and intense journey, their best bet it so be put into a ...

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 ...

Suspended animation is a classic sci-fi trope that’s been used to explain everything from how people would be able to explore space, á la 2001: A Space Odyssey, to how criminals and cops could be ...

Findings in yeast and worms may have implications for extending preservation of human organs for transplantation SEATTLE — June 10, 2010 — How is it that some people who apparently freeze to death, ...

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 ...