Research at body farms—research facilities dedicated to studying what happens to human bodies after death—supplies law enforcement with valuable information about the process of decomposition ...

The decomposition of a human can be affected by many different factors, like moisture, temperature, and insects, not to mention the diverse aspects of the body itself.

HILLHURST, Tenn. (WSMV/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A woman discovered human remains behind a McDonald's on Friday. According to ...

The researchers investigated how intrinsic factors like disease, BMI or medication load affected microbial life at the university’s body donation research facility, specifically established for the ...

UC Santa Cruz anthropologist Alison Galloway is one of the nation’s foremost experts in the natural decomposition of human remains. She speaks Tuesday at the Rio Theatre. — Contributed photo.

But at human decomposition facilities, sometimes known as "body farms," students and researchers see rotting corpses every day. They watch as scavengers and bacteria feast on them.

Body Mass Index (BMI) Impacts Soil Chemical and Microbial Response to Human Decomposition. mSphere, 2022; DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00325-22 ...

Each human harbors up to an estimated 100 trillion microbes -- as many as 10 times the number of cells in the body -- that undertake functions ranging from food digestion to strengthening of the ...

Lying in the open, a human body can take months to return to earth, says forensic anthropologist Daniel Wescott. First, the skin "slips" and blisters. It turns blacks and greys and greens. It bloats.

Homicide Unit detectives dispatched to the scene found a human skull that was "in a deep state of decomposition" around 100 ...