Cryogenics

Should we preserve the eggs of endangered species?

A recent paper by Caterina Wiedemann describing her success in freezing and thawing the egg cells of several different cat species is raising an interesting question about our efforts to preserve endangered animals. We’ve got a doomsday seed vault in the Arctic, so why not create egg vaults, too? To be more specific about Wiedemann’s…

io9 George Dvorsky Feb 28

A bizarre 1980s commercial about cryogenics

As always, the late 1980s deliver a piece of perplexing propaganda — this time, it takes the form of a life insurance commercial that feels like somebody’s frustrated attempt to make a movie about somebody awakened from cryogenic sleep. This was aired in 1988 and is weirdly well done.

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 13

Photos go behind the scenes of the world’s cryonics facilities

Cryonics may be a fanciful notion to some and it’s certainly an expensive undertaking, but that hasn’t stopped a handful of people from having their bodies cryogenically frozen in the hope of being revived in some distant future. Photographer Murray Ballard stepped into the world of cryopreservation with his camera in hand, offering an unusual…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 6

Frozen fruit fly larva brings us one step closer to cryogenics

It’s been a dream for years — freezing your body at the moment of death, so that you can be revived later, when medical science has advanced enough to cure you, and possibly rejuvenate you as well. https://gizmodo.com/man-who-vowed-to-live-forever-died-over-the-weekend-5824586 And now, scientists may have brought the development of real cryogenics a bit closer — by making…

io9 Tim Barribeau Feb 17

What Would Really Happen If Scientists Invented Cryogenics?

You see, the thing is that, in order to make the future happen, you need to have people in the present to work on it. So if you happen to invent machine-induced hibernation, just don’t tell anyone. [XKCD]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 12

New “whole body cryotherapy” treatment exposes you to -166°F air

How cold of a temperature do you think you can survive exposure to? 0°F? -20°F? -50°F? How about -166°F, and you do it intentionally? A group of French scientists studied various ways that people recover after intensive workouts, including whole body cryotherapy, which sounds like something out of Futurama. Tested on a group of experienced…

io9 Tim Barribeau Dec 9

Man Who Vowed to Live Forever Died Over the Weekend

Robert C.W. Ettinger, who famously said that death was for the unprepared and the unimaginative, died on Saturday. But the physics teacher and science fiction writer may be coming back — his family froze his body cryonically. Ettinger, widely considered the founder of the cryonics movement, is being stored in a vat of liquid nitrogen…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 25

The Building That Aims To Stops Time

Wondering what to do with your body as old age encroaches ever more on your lifestyle? Perhaps you should consider an application to the Timeship, which aims to be “the world’s largest facility for life extension research [and] cryopreservation.” The Timeship is the dream of architect Steven Valentine, a proposed six-acre structure that would defend…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 3

Keep Your Pets Frozen for Cryogenic Travel

If cryogenic science is perfected, it promises a future where humans can travel to the future just by freezing themselves. But cryogenics entrepreneurs have more mundane ideas for bringing freezy suspended animation into everyday life. Scenario Land imagines that someday home cryogenics products could perform important tasks like freezing your pets for easier travel.John Heylin,…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 20

Five Future Lawsuits We’re Already Working On

This fall’s Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica, will plunge civil rights attorney Joseph Adama into unfamiliar legal and ethical depths when he encounters the first member of the Cylonic species. Fortunately, lawyers on our planet are already considering the legal consequences of the future, toaster-laden or otherwise. After the jump, five legal areas sure to burn…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 2

Should we preserve the eggs of endangered species?

A bizarre 1980s commercial about cryogenics

Photos go behind the scenes of the world’s cryonics facilities

Frozen fruit fly larva brings us one step closer to cryogenics

What Would Really Happen If Scientists Invented Cryogenics?

New “whole body cryotherapy” treatment exposes you to -166°F air

Man Who Vowed to Live Forever Died Over the Weekend

The Building That Aims To Stops Time

Keep Your Pets Frozen for Cryogenic Travel

Five Future Lawsuits We’re Already Working On

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