The science of extending human life is rapidly accelerating, fueled by advances in artificial intelligence, genomics and regenerative medicine. What once belonged to the realm of science fiction now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cryonics companies cryogenically freeze people after death, hoping they will one day be revived. Critics say it is fantastical.

A small team in Scottsdale is preserving bodies and pets at ultra-low temperatures in the hope that future medicine may catch ...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — It may sound unorthodox, but the practice of cryogenically preserving, or freezing a body after legal death is slowly gaining traction around the world. The Scottsdale based Alcor ...

From an October 7 press release by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Scottsdale, Arizona, that cryonically preserves members’ heads or bodies “with the intent of ...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A Montana man whose father signed up for cryogenic preservation after death is suing to obtain the older man's remains. Laurence Pilgeram paid Scottsdale, Arizona-based Alcor Life ...

Three family members of Ted Williams filed a lawsuit Thursday against Alcor Life Extension Foundation, demanding it produce paperwork showing the baseball icon wanted his remains frozen at the ...

Los Angeles homicide detectives are investigating the 1992 death of a man whose remains are frozen at Scottsdale-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the cryonics company known nationally for ...

There, inside a nondescript building with two palm trees out front, is the headquarters of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a nonprofit that cryogenically preserves the remains of its deceased ...