Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bill still must pass through the Senate, where it failed last year, to get signed. H5110, introduced by Rep. Michelle McGaw, D ...

Early human cremation evidence: Scientists debate burn marks on ancient Homo sapiens bones University of Oulu experts suggest that if these marks are correctly interpreted, they could push back the ...

At Mount Hora, archaeologists discovered the oldest human cremation in Africa and the oldest in situ adult pyre in the world. As stated in a study recently published in Science Advances, “globally, ...

The latest discoveries by an international research team, which includes Academy Research Fellow Ferhat Kaya from the University of Oulu, Finland, offer a detailed view of how early humans lived, ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known evidence of human cremation, dating back 100,000 years. The new discoveries offer detailed perspectives on how early Homo sapiens lived, moved and ...

An international team of scholars identified the oldest known intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices. Discovery reveals ...

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...

In 2020, Recompose was the first U.S. company to develop the technology needed for the commercial composting of human bodies, disrupting a funeral industry that had been largely unchanged for decades.

What do you want done with your body after you die? What should you want done? In a handful of states, it’s now legal to put a body in a cylindrical vessel with microbes that eat the flesh in about a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey legalizes human composting as green alternative to burials, cremation New Jersey has become the latest state to ...

In some funeral parlors, physical casket showrooms could die out and move to a virtual realm — the space instead used for “water cremation” machines that break down a human body into bone fragments ...

During a rafting trip in the West, Angela Bean took a palm full of her son’s ashes and spread them across rushing water. Her 27-year-old son, who died in a fatal fall from a pickup truck in 2015, had ...