Adriana L. Romero-Olivares Tracks Fungi’s Response to Climate Change
Adriana L. Romero-Olivares Tracks Fungi’s Response to Climate Change
The New Mexico State University soil microbiologist uses molecular tools to understand how fungi are adapting to a warming world and what that might mean for global nutrient cycles.
The New Mexico State University soil microbiologist uses molecular tools to understand how fungi are adapting to a warming world and what that might mean for global nutrient cycles.
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Fly Colonies Help Calculate Time of Death of Car Trunk Cadavers
Ashley Yeager | Jul 13, 2020 | 4 min read
Using pigs as human proxies, forensic entomologists reveal how bodies in vehicles decompose differently from those dumped outside.
It Takes Less Than 30 Days to Compost a Human Body
Jef Akst | Feb 17, 2020 | 2 min read
In a small trial of deceased volunteers, a Seattle-based company called Recompose demonstrates that its method for “natural organic reduction” of a human body completely breaks down soft tissue.
How Salvador Dalí’s Mustache Endured Death
Aggie Mika | Jul 23, 2017 | 2 min read
Forensic experts explain.
Amsterdam to Open Forensic Cemetery
Bob Grant | Jan 23, 2017 | 1 min read
The facility—the first of its kind in Europe—will help researchers study what happens to decomposing bodies.
Submerged Pigs Inform Forensics
Jef Akst | Jul 1, 2016 | 5 min read
Watching the decomposition of pig carcasses anchored to the seafloor is helping forensic researchers understand what to expect of human remains dumped in the ocean.
Well-Brined Pork
The Scientist | Jun 30, 2016 | 1 min read
Watch what happens when marine organisms have their way with a sunken pig carcass.
The Necrobiome
Chris Palmer | Feb 1, 2014 | 4 min read
Next-generation sequencing of the bacterial assemblages that inhabit a corpse throughout decomposition improve time-of-death estimates.
Man-Eating Mushrooms
Jef Akst | Sep 9, 2011 | 3 min read
An artist suggests that being buried in a suit laden with decomposing fungi may be healthier for the mind and the environment.