AFP via Getty Images Authorities would’ve likely needed to preserve the body quickly to prevent the rapid onset of decomposition amid the humid temperatures, the Daily Mail reported. Fortunately ...

Over a week after celebrated actor Gene Hackman was found dead alongside wife Betsy Arakawa in their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home, officials released their findings on the couple's causes of death ...

A Missoula law firm says the Butte-Silver Bow Coroner’s Office allowed a man’s body to “suffer significant decomposition” prior to a medical examination, compromising an autopsy and ...

But Stefan Schmitt, a forensic scientist at Florida International University reviewed the video for CNN and said the level of decomposition of the infants was advanced. Schmitt said he believed ...

Abstract: Surface electromyogram (SEMG) decomposition provides a promising tool for decoding and understanding neural drive information non-invasively. In contrast to previous SEMG decomposition ...

The small rural Missouri town of Gower has become an unexpected pilgrimage destination after a nun’s exhumed body showed no visible signs of decomposition — four years after her burial.

Has someone tried to conceal the body's identity? Researchers prefer to call such labs "decomposition research facilities" or "taphonomic research facilities," taphonomy being the study of how ...

When air can’t reach organic matter, it starts to decompose through anaerobic decomposition, which is decomposition by organisms that don’t need oxygen to survive. Anaerobic decomposition ...

But how long does it take for a body to fully decompose? Although the process of decomposition starts within minutes of death, there are a number of variables, including the ambient temperature ...

Hydrolysis of BDNPA/F proceeds by the formation of 2,2-dinitropropanol (DNPOH) and 2,2-dinitropropyl hemiacetal/hemiformal, which further decompose into DNPOH and ethanal/methanal, respectively.