Half-life is a mathematical and scientific description of exponential or gradual decay.

Half-life, half life or halflife may also refer to:

Film and television

• Half-Life (film), a 2008 independent film by Jennifer Phang
• Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age, a 1985 Australian documentary film
• "Half Life" (Medical Investigation), an episode of Medical Investigation

Literature

• Half Life (Jackson novel), a 2006 novel by Shelley Jackson
• Half-Life (Krach novel), a 2004 novel by Aaron Krach
• Halflife (Michalowski novel), a 2004 novel by Mark Michalowski
• Rozpad połowiczny (Half-Life), a 1988 award-winning dystopia novel by Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński

Music

• Half Life (3 album) (2001)
• Halflife (EP), an EP by Lacuna Coil and the title track
• Half-Life E.P., an EP by Local H
• "Half Life", a song by 10 Years from The Autumn Effect
• "Half Life", a song by Come from Near-Life Experience
• "Half Life", a song by Imogen Heap from her album Ellipse
• "Half Life", a song by Prototype from the album Trinity
• Halflives, a French-Italian alternative rock band

Video games

• Half-Life (series), a video game series developed by Valve
  • Half-Life (video game), the first game in the series
  • Half-Life 2, the second game in the series
  • Half-Life: Alyx, a prequel to the events in the second game

See also

• Biological half-life, the time it takes for a substance to lose half of its pharmacologic, physiologic, or radiologic activity
• Effective half-life, the effective radioactive half-life in organisms after accounting for excretion