Some people think it’s worth it anyway. This week I reported on some rather unusual research that focuses on the brain of L.

Since the age of 13, Joseph Kowalsky has harbored a fascination with life after death, pondering ways to extend his existence indefinitely. Today, Kowalsky, now 59, is among some 2,000 individuals who ...

SAN LEANDRO (KPIX) -- It is the stuff of science fiction and Hollywood movies. The promise: upon your death, your body is frozen until some future medical breakthrough restores you to full health.

Though no frozen humans have yet been revived, cryonics has been an industry for over fifty years. In that time, focus has shifted slightly. Lately, the emphasis has been more on brain emulation: ...

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 ...

Robert Ettinger, pioneer of the cryonics movement that advocates freezing the dead in the hope that medical technology will enable them to live again someday, has died. He was 92. Ettinger died ...

Such is the breathtaking pace of modern scientific advancement that in the three short years since the technicians at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation famously severed baseball star Ted Williams’ ...

The ability to freeze things is our greatest weapon against the passage of time. To a frozen fish fillet or chicken nugget, physical aging is barely a threat: the cold protects them indefinitely ...

Dale Pearce said he was not “mentally prepared” to say goodbye to his beloved Australian Kelpie named Neren ...

In pursuit of life everlasting, some turn to God. Others turn to science. Or rather, something science-ish. If you've ever hoped to be cryogenically frozen, you might come across a legal hurdle: while ...

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