Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about neuroscience and its intersection with technology. In an article published yesterday in MIT Technology Review, ...

A broad coalition of 151 Catholics including medical professionals, bioethicists, and scholars released a joint letter this past week expressing concern about new guidelines issued by a major ...

In “Dividing the Church on Brain Death,” which appeared in our June issue, Dr. Jason T. Eberl and others argued that current neurological criteria for determining brain death is consistent with ...

Editors’ note: In the June 2024 issue, America published an article called “Dividing the Church on Brain Death.” Dr. Jason T. Eberl and his coauthors argued that current neurological criteria for ...

The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ...

When does the brain die? While the concept of brain death has been widely accepted by medical professionals since the late-1960s, significant questions about its precise nature still remain. The ...

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." While that may still be true, there's a controversy simmering today about one of the ways ...

Death has always been one of humanity’s greatest mysteries, but a completely accidental brain scan captured something that might change how we think about our final moments. What scientists discovered ...

Share on Pinterest TikTok’s viral “blackout challenge” (also known as the “choking challenge” can lead to permanent brain damage or death in under five minutes. Sneksy/Getty Images The viral “blackout ...