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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Anna Williams has previously receive funding from the EPSRC. Most people are able to recognise the smell of “death” when they encounter a dead animal on a farm or a roadkill. But despite its ...