FLORENCE, Colo. — For the first time in Colorado, the remains of a person who went through human body decomposition were laid out in the hills of Fremont County Sunday. Human composting became legal ...

Researchers investigated how the process of human body decomposition affected microbial life of the surrounding soil microbiome. One factor that may play an important role is body mass index (BMI), ...

Getting an accurate estimate of when someone died is a critical part of forensic investigations. In extremely cold conditions, molecular biology can provide critical information that the naked eye ...

When nuns at a monastery in Gower, Mo., exhumed the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster to move it to a final resting place, they were reportedly surprised to find that her body showed few signs of ...

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 ...