Urban Death Project

Identity

These Women Want to Change What Happens to Your Corpse

02.16.16

By Kat Kranzler
Going Out in Style: Creative Urns and Burial Alternatives

07.29.15

By Noémie Jennifer
Tech

A Kickstarter for Composting Your Corpse, Because Dead Humans Are Killing Earth

03.31.15

By Ben Richmond
This Nonprofit Wants to Turn Corpses into Compost

03.18.15

By Sarah Berman

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Life

Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video

Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.

2 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

Ancient Kangaroos Were Absolutely Humongous, But They Could Still Hop

These kangaroo behemoths, covered in muscles, were theoretically roughly as springy as modern-day kangaroos.

2 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination

Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures

3 hours ago

By Luis Prada
WWE

Entertainment

Uh Oh. Did Shinsuke Nakamura Just Reveal When AJ Styles Is Retiring From WWE?

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By Haley Miller
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Life

Alaska’s Beluga Whales Have Wild Sex Lives—and It Keeps Them Alive

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By Luis Prada