A man is suing a cryonics firm for allegedly not respecting his late father’s wishes—or contract—to have his entire body cryogenically preserved. Instead, the firm severed and stored the man’s head, ...

On Sunday’s episode of Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates, it’s all about how cultures and countries deal with the looming inevitability of death and what occurs afterwards. Monsters and Critics’ ...

It's a scene plucked from science fiction: On their deathbed, a person is completely frozen and then stashed away, so that they might be revived in the future. But could it be possible? In this ...

Here's some news that will give pause to those of you out there currently weighing the pros and cons of getting yourselves cryonically frozen. The son of late California scientist Dr. Laurence ...

Cryonics ("Cryo" originates from the Greek word for "cold") is a highly controversial practice that involves deep-freezing and storing deceased human bodies for long term, with the hope that in the ...

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Baseball great Ted Williams, a symbol of the game’s bygone era, has in the days since his death become the center of an uproar more befitting science fiction. According to one side of his family, the ...

John Henry Williams, the son of baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams who pushed to have his father’s body frozen and his DNA preserved, has died of leukemia in a hospital in Los Angeles, an attorney ...

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The only obvious sign this is the office of a cryonics company sits on the windowsill: a stainless-steel vacuum vessel about the size of a lobster pot. It’s meant to transport a human brain, and if ...

He described cryonics as “borderlands science, because it dwells in that fuzzy region of claims that have yet to pass any tests but have some basis, however remote, in reality.” Alcor officials ...