immortality

The concept of living forever has lived in pop culture across generations and cultures, but have scientists in Japan finally cracked the code? In this episode of Future Tense, we discover more about the tech that could digitalise life as we know it.

Watch "Forever Young," Motherboard's new documentary about the Church of Perpetual Life.

By reversing its aging process, Japan's tiny Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish is one of the only known animals that has figured out how to defeat death.