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 ...

Researchers studying the process of decomposition in a body after death from natural causes found that, without any external “assistance,” human remains can change their position. This discovery has ...

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 ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are working to understand how warming affects the planet’s carbon cycle.

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Anna Williams has previously receive funding from the EPSRC. Most people are able to recognise the smell of “death” when they encounter a dead animal on a farm or a roadkill. But despite its ...