Leaf-litter decomposition is a central process in carbon cycling; however, our knowledge about the microbial regulation of this process is still scarce. Metaproteomics allows us to link the abundance ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are working to understand how warming affects the planet’s carbon cycle.

When a human dies, various changes occur in the body tissue, decomposition progresses, and eventually it returns to nature, but various factors are at work in that process. Scientific media Live ...

Researchers studying the process of decomposition in a body after death from natural causes found that, without any external “assistance,” human remains can change their position. This discovery has ...

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Before your favorite produce arrives at the grocery store, it must be carefully harvested and maintained across long stretches of time. A recent University of Georgia review published in Scientia ...

Research at body farms—research facilities dedicated to studying what happens to human bodies after death—supplies law enforcement with valuable information about the process of decomposition in ...