Mar 22 2011

Polar Bear, Knut, Had Brain Damage

Tag: Autopsy,Bears,Death and Dying,Zoo Animals — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:57 pm
Knut, the celebrity polar bear who died over the weekend, may have succumbed to a brain disorder.

Mar 18 2011

Natural Disasters Highlight Importance of Securing Your Digital Afterlife

Tag: Afterlife,Death and Dying,Disaster Scenarios,Disasters and Accidents,Internet,Natural Disasters — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:37 pm
The loss of digital assets has almost as great an impact on the speed of economic and emotional recovery as the replacement of brick and mortar assets.

Mar 18 2011

Radiation: Assessing the Risk in Japan

Tag: Death and Dying,Disaster Scenarios,Disasters and Accidents,Epidemiologist,Leukemia,Nuclear Science — Emily Sohn @ 8:02 am
Past events have helped researchers pinpoint when radiation exposure gets dangerous.

Mar 10 2011

Humans Age at Same Rate as Chimps, Gorillas

Tag: Aging,Chimpanzee,Death and Dying,Evolution,Gorillas,Humans,Monkeys,Primates — Jennifer Viegas @ 7:00 pm
So much for the wonders of technology and medicine, for all our advances, human mortality rates are on par with chimps.

Feb 18 2011

Investigation Clears Toyota Electronics in Crashes

Tag: Cars,Computer Simulation,Computer Software,Computers,Death and Dying,Electronics,Engineering,Forensic Science,Health,Materials Science,Safety and Prevention,Transportation — Benjamin Radford @ 3:10 pm
A year after runaway Toyotas scared the country, a government report clears faulty electronics.

Feb 03 2011

Managing Digital Assets — In Life and Death

Tag: Death and Dying,Online Community and Social Networking,Privacy — Marianne English @ 3:34 pm
How to protect your digital data before you die.

Jan 31 2011

Super Bowl Can Take a Toll on Your Ticker

Tag: Cardiologist,Death and Dying,Earthquakes,Events,Family,Female,Games,Life Science,Male,Medical School,Medicine,Men,Scientists,Snacks,Women — Emily Sohn @ 6:01 am
If you think you'll have a heart attack if your team loses, you might just be right.

Jan 06 2011

Birds Falling From the Sky Not Unusual

Tag: Animals,Bats,Birds,Death and Dying,Nature,USGS,Wild Animals — Emily Sohn @ 3:01 pm
The only unusual part of the reported bird (and fish) die-offs over the past week is that people witnessed them.

Dec 10 2010

U.S. Life Expectancy Declines

Tag: Aging,Death and Dying,Health — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:30 pm
Heart disease remained the leading cause of death in the United States, followed by cancer.

Nov 30 2010

Early Heat Waves Are Deadliest

Tag: Air Conditioning,Climate,Climate Change,Death and Dying,Global Warming,Heat Waves,Summer — Larry O'Hanlon @ 5:15 pm
At a time when climate scientists are predicting more frequent and longer heat waves, this isn't good news.
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