As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

One task students took part in was a simulated body farm to learn about death investigation and decomposition of a body. Students did not use real bodies for this, but a whole chicken instead.

A body in “advanced decomposition” was found Thursday at the park next to the Sedgwick County Zoo, an official said. A park employee found the body around 1:15 p.m. in a thick grass-covered ...

The New Jersey State Legislature is on the verge of legalizing human composting, a process that transforms bodies into soil.

OSWEGO, N.Y. — The Oswego Police Department announced Monday morning that it had found a body along the breakwall just west of the Oswego Lighthouse. The Police Department said that around 6:30 ...

What about our clothes?They disappear, too.First, what happens to clothes in a landfill? The rate of decomposition depends on whether your clothes come from natural or synthetic materials.Clothing ...

Why space wrecks the human bodyIn this week’s episode of Space Minds, we explore how microgravity accelerates aging—and guest Dr. Nadia Maarouf shares her insights on the phenomenon and what ...

Regina White said there was no way “Tray,” as he was known to family and friends, would get into any water on his own. He ...

An alternative to burial or cremation — allowing dead bodies to break down into a soil-like product — is just a signature away from reality in New Jersey.

World-class facilities helping Western Sydney University students succeed From high-tech nursing and midwifery labs to ...

GRANT COUNTY, Wash. – The body of a 30-year-old farmworker from the Mattawa area was recovered from an irrigation canal Tuesday evening.

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.