In the desert climate of Scottsdale, Arizona rest 147 brains and bodies, all frozen in liquid nitrogen with the goal of being revived one day. It's not science fiction — to some it might not even be ...

Max More will have his brain frozen after he dies, and he’s not alone. Rose Eveleth asks him why he signed up – and how the strange procedure of cryopreserving bodies actually works. In 1972 Max More ...

It's the stuff of science fiction: chilling your body inside a stainless steel chamber for years on end. But is cryonics a way to reverse death or is it just a pipe dream? Claire Reilly was a video ...

Mike Perry, Alcor’s patient care director and a future patient himself, monitors the cryo-capsules, which are chilled with liquid nitrogen to -300 degrees Fahrenheit and contain four whole bodies, as ...

At Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the bodies and heads of 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved in hopes of being revived in the future are stored inside tanks with liquid nitrogen. Time and ...

Inside a Scottsdale office building are the heads and bodies of 168 people who have been "cryonically preserved" with the hope that death will not be permanent. One of the most famous occupants at the ...