But what if human remains could be as nonthreatening as a nice bag of garden soil or a peaceful woodland hike? It might not ...

The necrobiome can also tell you if a body has been moved after death. Bacteria might be helpful in this regard. The soil at ...

A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants.

Canadian researchers reveal the human body emits faint light, known as biophoton emission, during life which vanishes at death.

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique, purpose-built scale was ready to ...