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Comatose male patient in hospital.

Heart attack doctor asks, is death now reversible?

If new findings in resuscitation techniques hold up, says Sam Parnia in his new book, brain conditions now deemed irreversible may be reversible

As a medical scientist, he looks at how new findings will help develop new treatments to revive people now considered hopeless and restore brain damage.

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Gaia Reborn? New Climate Book Sees Earth as Living Entity

The Gaia hypothesis, pioneered by Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock was once ridiculed but Ferris Jabr thinks we should take it seriously to fight climate change

This idea, which can be placed along the panpsychism spectrum, risks making climate issues a religion and will cast specifically human rights into doubt.

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Generative AI illustration of neanderthal prehistoric caveman

Does It Take a PR Agency to Make Neanderthals Human?

It’s interesting to watch how science writing on Neanderthals has changed over the years

There is no reason to think Neanderthals were not human in the usual sense except that someone must be the subhuman if Darwinism is true.

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