Carbon tetrachloride (CCl₄) is a type of volatile organic compound (VOC) that was once widely used as a refrigerant and cleaning agent, but is now strictly regulated due to its toxic properties.

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 ...

Credit: Grainger Films Bodies decompose differently in mass graves than in individual graves. To understand these differences ...

A team of University of Maine chemists has reported that exposing pesticide-contaminated water to natural light and a mineral known as a zeolite can dramatically speed up the break down of the ...

Researchers have developed a simple, effective electronic device that can determine how fresh a fish is in less than two minutes.

Increases in nitrogen (N) availability reduce decay rates of highly lignified plant litter. Although microbial responses to N addition are well documented, the chemical mechanisms that may give rise ...

Within the last several years the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) market has mushroomed and many utilities have purchased and are erecting wet FGD systems. Critical to proper operation of these systems ...

Are you interested in forensic science, pathology and decomposition? Would you like to find out more about how bodies change after death, and how this information can be used to help a criminal ...