“The experience of not belonging to the world at all … is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man,” wrote Hannah Arendt years ago. These days, that feeling isn’t unusual it’s woven ...

In 1989, the sociologist Ray Oldenburg cemented his status as required reading for hungover college freshmen when he coined the concept of “third places” in his book The Great Good Place. Third places ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

The boundary between life and death appears increasingly complex as scientists uncover evidence of cellular activity persisting after an organism’s death. This phenomenon dubbed the “third state” ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The ...

What if scientists could take cells from both living and dead organisms and turn them into entirely new organisms beyond life and death? While it might sound completely out of this world—something you ...

In the theater of life, the “third act” is often portrayed as a time of physical and or cognitive decline or, at the very least, slowing down. I remember being told long ago that after the age of 35, ...