After death, the body enters a long process of decomposition, as its organic elements split into simpler components. What happens, and why learn about it?

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This "living" mushroom coffin will help your body decompose much faster. You'll break down in just a few years, as opposed to a decade. Here's how it works.

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 ...

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 ...