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 ...

Du’a to preclude worms or worm-related creatures to devour the cadaver of a deceased Muslim Question: Asalaamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu. When a deceased person is buried under the ground, ...

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

Enzymes digest the organic matter outside their cells. This is known as extracellular digestion as it happens outside the cells. The products of digestion are absorbed by the bacteria and fungi. Place ...

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 ...

When the coffin’s a-rocking, don’t come a-knocking. Long after rigor mortis has set in, human corpses actually move their bodies “significantly,” according to forensic researcher Alyson Wilson. Wilson ...

As humans leave space junk behind, there may come a time when human bodies would need to decompose in space. Learn how this happens and why it's a slow process. By some estimates, about 3,000 dead ...