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 in ...

Putting together a podcast is a lot more organic than you might think. You have an idea, and then that idea percolates in your brain giving birth to more ideas or new paths you might explore. This is ...

Feral cats have been recorded eating human corpses at a research facility that studies how our bodies decompose. The cats were seen scavenging from dead bodies at the site in Whitewater, Colorado, ...

SAN MARCOS, Texas – Helping the forensic science community with research and hands-on training is what the Forensic Anthropology Research Center at Texas State University is all about. From ...

Few people decide when they’re children that they’d like to study the chemistry of death for a living. But Maiken Ueland set herself firmly on that path when she was a teenager—and she hasn’t looked ...

“Wait, let me get this straight,” my 14-year old said. “Your naked body would just rot on the ground? No thank you!” This might actually be a teenager’s ...

(CN) — Can plants help direct search teams to find a missing body in the forest? Scientists believe so, based on an array of changes to the surrounding soil caused by nutrients released during ...

The details of what to do when someone dies are personal and with limited options; however, a new trend has been gaining steam, with seven U.S. states adopting human composting as an alternative. The ...

Forensic researchers at the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s famous Anthropological Research Facility, popularly known as the “Body Farm,” have made headlines for decades in their discoveries of ...

How do you find human remains in a massive natural ecosystem like the Amazon rainforest? According to a new paper published in the journal Trends in Plant Science, tree and shrub canopies could guide ...

People have long wondered whether modern-day human corpses take longer to decompose due to the addition of preservatives in the food chain. The claim dates back to at least 1991, when an article was ...