What should happen to your body after you die? It’s hardly a topic you’d bring up over dinner, but it’s a decision that will eventually need to be made, either by you or by those you leave behind. In ...

Untreated tooth decay is Earth’s most common health condition. A biologist explains how farming, sugar and oral bacteria made ...

How much does your body move after you die Our bodies can continue moving long after death. When researchers in Australia ...

NSW has approved human composting, but the new law raises questions about Catholic beliefs, respect for the body and the ...

Rio police killed 117 civilians in a single raid. Thousands of hours of body camera footage show none of the deaths, a report found.

It turns out the human body has a sort of junk drawer, too. We have a number of body parts that served an important purpose for our distant ancestors but are essentially useless now, yet continue to ...

With Halloween falling on a football Saturday, we take a haunted trip to the sport's spookiest places.

A Cumberland County man has admitted that he stashed his dead cousin's body in a mobile home closet and then collected the man's benefits for several months before police uncovered the scheme. Steven ...

On August 20, 2007, a 12-year-old girl was on the beach at Jedediah Island in British Columbia when she spotted a ...

Human composting is now permitted in 14 US states. With a multiplicity of religions and strict adherence to traditions in ...

The two best-known adult skeletons from Cladh Hallan are the most unusual. Each was found under a roundhouse. One skeleton ...