Study on cadavers shows ant activity can mislead investigators

Understanding ant activity on bodies can help us reconstruct the events that occurred at the time of death and during early post-mortem periods. For the first time, a study has been carried out looking at 10 real cases of ...

Veterinary researcher answers five questions about botulism

During warm summers, the news media frequently reports on mortality among aquatic birds and fish as a result of botulism. Miriam Koene from Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) studies this bacterial disease. She answers ...

Video: The scent of death

Some scientists have an important, if morbid, job: They study the smell of decomposing human bodies.

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