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 ...

When a human dies, various changes occur in the body tissue, decomposition progresses, and eventually it returns to nature, but various factors are at work in that process. Scientific media Live ...

Forensic chemistry major Simone Fore, left, and Kyarra Beck, right, record and collect soil to test the volatile compounds that make a body smell during decomposition at Western Carolina ...

No matter where the body is buried, the microbial network behind the cadaver’s decomposition remains essentially the same. Researchers from Colorado State University (CSU) and the University of ...

The study tested the effects of controlled variables on decomposition of buried bodies in Florida. Twenty-four domestic pig (Sus scrofa, Linnaeus) cadavers used as a proxy for human bodies were buried ...

Previous research has determined that a decaying body releases some 30 different chemical compounds, and using donated cadavers, scientists have been able to isolate specific gases emitted after ...

The 113-year-old body was so well-preserved because it was embalmed—which slows decomposition (by how much depends on the embalming process)—and because the cast-iron coffin was hermetically ...

Increases in decomposition rates may be problematic for the global carbon cycle and for animals, like insects and fish, that live in streams because the food resources they need to survive will ...