Eleanor Cummins
How Academic Pirate Alexandra Elbakyan Is Fighting Scientific Misinformation
With its paywall, the publishing industry is crippling research. Sci-Hub is helping make research accessible.
UCLA Pauses 'Unethical' Study Designed to Mentally Distress Trans People
Advocacy groups warned people to avoid participating in the study due to "grave concerns about the unethical research design."
The First U.S. Funeral Home That Turns Bodies Into Compost Is Now Open
Recompose, located outside of Seattle, has turned its first customers into soil after years of development.
Harvard Has 22,000 Human Remains. Some of Them Were Probably Slaves
Harvard has a collection of 22,000 bodies going back more than a century, and some of them were likely enslaved. Now, it's apologizing and conducting archival research to determine if and how they may be repatriated.
Scientists Monitored 631 People As They Died. This Is What They Found
The largest international study of the physiology of death to date shows that death is “more of a continuum than the flipping of a switch.”
Those Viral Hospital iPads Are a 'Lifeline' for Covid Patients
These tools could be in use for a long time to come.
The Inventor Who Designed a Sustainable, Composting Coffin
Bob Hendrikx created the Loop Living Cocoon, a biodegradable coffin made of mushroom mycelium, as part of his dream to help us live—and die—sustainably.
The Deathcare Industry Was Never Ready for a Pandemic
The coronavirus is proving what epidemiologists have always known.
Your Favorite Park Is Probably Built on Dead Bodies
New York City is considering burying victims of Covid-19 in public parks, many of which were already built on top of burial grounds.
CDC Tells Morticians to Livestream Funerals
In the wake of coronavirus, any funeral with more than 50 people should be canceled and should be livestreamed online instead.
How Funeral Directors Are Preparing for Coronavirus
As the novel disease spreads around the globe, members of the deathcare industry are sharing tips and ordering respirators.