There are so many phenomena that are scary, unsettling, maybe even a bit morbid, and yet also happen to be deeply fascinating. For instance, when the sun slowly swells and swallows the planets in its ...

It’s the sound no one warns you about – but once you hear it, you never forget it. Known as the “death rattle,” the sound is a “biological lullaby” – a sign that within 23 hours, the body will fall ...

In the final episode of the FX series Dying for Sex, a hospice nurse with an oddly comforting sense of enthusiasm explains to a patient what to expect as she dies. “Death is not a mystery. It is not a ...