What happens to the human body after burial? Explore the biological stages of decomposition, how soil, temperature, and oxygen affect decay, and what happens to bones over time.

Standing between your dead body and its eventual star-stuff fate are a whole lot of bugs and chemicals. Bodies rot and putrefy, and this is how it should be. But, as a future corpse, you may be ...

People have long wondered whether modern-day human corpses take longer to decompose due to the addition of preservatives in the food chain. The claim dates back to at least 1991, when an article was ...