There are so many phenomena that are scary, unsettling, maybe even a bit morbid, and yet also happen to be deeply fascinating. For instance, when the sun slowly swells and swallows the planets in its ...

Hospice experts describe a distinctive sound, known as the death rattle, that often signals a person is within a day of dying. Caused by saliva and secretions collecting in the throat when swallowing ...

It’s the sound no one warns you about – but once you hear it, you never forget it. Known as the “death rattle,” the sound is a “biological lullaby” – a sign that within 23 hours, the body will fall ...