Carrion is something we choose to stay away from - it looks awful, writhes with insects, and smells really bad. Why would anyone study the remains of dead animals? Aa Aa Aa Carrion, or the remains of ...

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 ...

Victoria Gibbon receives funding from National Research Foundation of South Africa. She is affiliated with The University of Cape Town. Devin Alexander Finaughty receives funding from the Oppenheimer ...

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 ...