Dr. Himanshu Bansal and a couple of bioscience companies have received approval in India for a clinical trial in which 20 brain dead patients will be treated in an attempt to bring them back to life. The Reanima Project...

It's impossible to resuscitate a frozen corpse. But that doesn't bother the small legion of cryonauts who are betting that an outlaw science will let them live forever. (Photo courtesy of Alcor Life Extension Foundati...

Some living things can be held in a suspended animation of sorts and be "resurrected" long afterward. Plant seeds are the most common example, and the brine shrimp capsules that develop into "sea monkeys" are a familiar...

Here's a sure-fire way to ruin a perfectly good funeral: wake the corpse up. It happened last week in Egypt. Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi of the village of Naga al-Simman suffered a heart attack while working as a waiter. Hospita...