Microbial Digestion Microbes, tiny one-celled organisms, eat dead things all the time, including human bodies. Kartik Chandran, a Columbia professor and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, is trying to harness that appetite to not only dispose of human corpses, but turn...
Alkaline Hydrolysis Turning a body into ash with fire takes a great deal of energy. Turning a body into sludge with water requires a whole lot less. Alkaline Hydrolysis, also known as bio-cremation, flameless cremation, or resomation, is the process of pressure...
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