Carrion is something we choose to stay away from - it looks awful, writhes with insects, and smells really bad. Why would anyone study the remains of dead animals? Aa Aa Aa Carrion, or the remains of ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --Scientists have developed a better way to study the necrobiome, the collections of big and small organisms that help plants and animals decay. Death and decomposition are vital to ...

Cape Town has consistently been one of the metropolitan regions in South Africa with the highest murder rates. It has more than double the national average, and is currently ranked second overall and ...

Like many parents around the world, burying beetles provide a cozy nursery for their offspring. Unlike most parents, however, Nicrophorus vespilloides beetles build that nursery by plucking fur and ...

1. It is generally assumed that the same factors drive the decomposition of both litter and roots and that nutrient release from litter and roots is synchronized. However, few studies have explicitly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The use of decomposition as a procedure for improving the consistency of subjective probability encoding is discussed. Using a psychometric ...

As damage caused by climate change increases every year, technologies to convert carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that ...