Human composting turns bodies into soil by speeding up “what happens on the forest floor,” according to Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, the human composting company the Muckenhoupt family ...

Jonas Frisén, MD, PhD, and Olaf Bergmann, MD, PhD, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, led teams in Sweden and Germany and used their own innovative method of carbon dating human heart ...

A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said. By Carl Zimmer In our digital age ...

Long before we're born, our heart's tissues twitch and convulse in a rhythm that only ceases in our final hour. It's a function so mechanical we could be forgiven for overlooking its complexity. Yet ...