Learn what it's like to be a forensic entomologist and use insect larvae to find the age of rotting "corpses" in this experiment from the SciFri Educator Collaborative.

Joe LeFevre, chairman of Fox Valley Technical College 's Forensic Science Department, said researchers might conduct experiments on how subzero temperatures mummify body tissue, whether insects ...

Experiments carried out at body farms have rarely used more than three or four bodies, which has led some scientists to consider their findings anecdotal, rather than authoritative.

The Associated Press reports — For more than five weeks, a woman's body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a ...

Whether it's fire's effects on bones, how medications affect scavengers or whether corpses can change tree colors, something's always being studied at center.

Local News The Body Farm: What goes on behind the locked gates Students, scientists or police are out every day at the Anthropology Research Facility, working among the dead.

Fans of the CBS drama “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” undoubtedly will take interest in Fox Valley Technical College’s latest venture: the creation of a cold-weather body farm. A body farm ...

The Body Farm consists of 2 fenced South Knoxville acres where donated bodies decay under controlled situations that mimic the fate of crime victims.

I visited a body farm and an anatomy lab to see what the process looks like at its best.

The Body Farm consists of 2 fenced South Knoxville acres where donated bodies decay under controlled situations that mimic the fate of crime victims.

Facilities for human taphonomy, the study of what happens to an organism after its death, or “body farms” as they have become colloquially known, are unique outdoor laboratories where forensic ...

The Body Farm consists of 2 fenced South Knoxville acres where donated bodies decay under controlled situations that mimic the fate of crime victims.