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The only obvious sign this is the office of a cryonics company sits on the windowsill: a stainless-steel vacuum vessel about the size of a lobster pot. It’s meant to transport a human brain, and if ...

Meet Kai Micah Mills, a 24-year-old entrepreneur from Utah, who dropped out of high school and spent his teenage years running Minecraft servers from his basement with his long-haired tabby cat named ...

Last weekend, 150 people attended the Alcor life extension conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. The main subject was cryonics, the use of technology to cool and preserve the human body with the aim of ...

SERGIYEV POSAD, Russia -- In this sleepy, conservative town in the heartland of Russian Orthodoxy, an experiment aimed at resurrecting the dead is under way in a frigid backyard laboratory. Bathed in ...

The 2000s was a weird time for movies. Absurd plot twists, annoying rich men played by Tom Cruise, and manic pixie dream girlfriends abounded in cinema— and Vanilla Sky contains all three in spades.

Cryonics ("Cryo" originates from the Greek word for "cold") is a highly controversial practice that involves deep-freezing and storing deceased human bodies for long term, with the hope that in the ...

In the opening scenes of Netflix’s recent sci-fi movie, Oxygen, Liz (Mélanie Laurent) wakes to find herself encased in a cryogenic chamber. She has no memory of who she is or how she got there. To ...

Bart Kosko, a professor of electrical engineering at USC and author of "Heaven in a Chip" (Random House, 2000), is on the science advisory board of the nonprofit Alcor cryonics corporation. Go ahead ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If you travel to the 15th-century monastery town of Sergiyev Posad on the outskirts of Moscow, drive down a couple of ...