What if immortality wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to be immortal? In this series, Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic they can be to us mere...

The talented herbalist Xu Xian had just started his own medicine shop where he created remedies with the help of his wife, Bai Su Zhen. One day a monk named Fa Hai approached him, warning him that there was a demon in his house. The...

To quote eminent scientist Tyler Durden: "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." Actually… not necessarily true. If the quantum multiverse is real there may be a version of you that lives...

Quantum Immortality - is it real? Quantum mechanics shows that all particles are not particles at all but really waves of probabilities. There are two common interpretations of how these waves become distinct- one...

Biological Immortality: The top 3 biggest causes of death are in order: Heart disease, Cancer, and Lung disease. These and other diseases kill as many as 2.5 million people per year...

No one can beat trees at living long. Methusaleh, the single oldest living tree, that we've discovered, is over 4,800 years old. On the other hand, Pando is a colony of quaking aspen trees all born from the same over 70,000 year old root...

Are you immortal if you never age? Defying death is not as clear-cut as it might initially seem. What we define as immortality depends a bit on what you think it means to die.

This video is answering the question of were Greek gods immortal.

No one can beat trees at living long. Methusaleh, the single oldest living tree, that we've discovered, is over 4,800 years old. On the other hand, Pando is a colony of quaking aspen trees all born from the same over 70,000 year old root...

Man Immortalizing Sayings on Bricks in Cuba:A man in Cuba is on a mission to immortalize sayings and famous quotes on the bricks surrounding his house.

Science Kids Longest Living Animals

The video explores the fascinating abilities of the immortal jellyfish, highlighting its unique process of transdifferentiation that allows it to rejuvenate and potentially live forever. By...

On this episode of Breaking Trail, Mark and the crew are in Florida with microbiologist Dr. Hunter Hines to find… water bears! Get ready to meet the Tardigrade, a.k.a the Water Bear! Are these creatures actually immortal beings? Or maybe...

Betty Rose is a "cattoo" artist—a cattoo being a tattoo of a cat. The first cattoo she made is on her husband's leg, and since that piece she's gone from making cattoos sporadically to doing them on a weekly basis. Rose knows how...

Susan Potter knew in exquisite and grisly detail what was going to happen to her body after death. It seems that for the last 15 years of her life, she lived for Vic Spitzer, the scientist committed to fulfilling her dream of helping...

While humans age and die (which is kind of a bummer), it looks like hydras will stay young and fertile forever. Why is this? And what can we learn from these tentacular microscopic organisms?

What is Keats' poem about, and why is it one of the greatest poems ever written?'http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/poetry-immortality-john-keats-ode-to-a-nightingale' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>written? ‘Thou wast not...

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“We can rebuild him. We have the technology,” began the opening sequence of the hugely popular 70’s TV show, “The Six Million Dollar Man.” Forty-five years later, how close are we, in reality, to that sci-fi fantasy? More thornily, now...

Are there limits to the human lifespan? Is it possible to stop the process of aging? On average, humans now live far longer than at any point in our history thanks to science and technology. On the horizon, advances in new drugs and...

What if immortality was possible? Motherboard explores a unique church in the heart of Hollywood, Florida where the parishioners believe that immortality is attainable through the progression of science and technology. In addition to...

HeLa cells have led to tremendous advancements in the world of medicine. Everyone has benefited from them, Rebecca Skloot, author of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” points out—except the Lackses themselves, an African American...

We know these cute little water bears can survive the vacuum of space but are they actually immortal? We'll explore that and other misconceptions about tardigrades in this week's journey!

Bear with us for a second, but do you know the Belinda Carlisle song "Heaven is a Place on Earth"? It's actually scientifically accurate. American public intellectual Michael Shermer says that any idea of the afterlife makes zero sense:...

Belinda Jack offers a small taste of her upcoming lecture series in this short interview. Here she discusses John Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale and its themes of