Forensic researchers at UT Knoxville's famous Anthropological Research Facility, popularly known as the "Body Farm," have made headlines for decades in their discoveries of what happens to human ...

Researchers have shown that larger insects such as woodlice and beetles play as much of a crucial role in leaf litter decomposition across different habitats and seasons as microbes and smaller ...

Mass-disaster settings promote commingling and debris burial that distort typical taphonomic progression, complicating postmortem interval estimation and downstream disaster victim identification ...

From rotting corpses crawling with maggots to oozing bodies emitting stomach-churning stenches, the decaying human body is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, and crime dramas. We're both ...

The word decomposition means to break down into smaller parts. We use it in several different areas. We also use decomposition to help with everyday tasks and problems - like planning and shopping for ...