Amsterdam's Academic Medical Center (AMC) announced last week that it has obtained a permit to open Europe's first taphonomical cemetery, a place where scientists can study the decomposition of human corpses under natural conditions. (sciencemag.org)
Mercury from tooth fillings incinerated with humans corpses and magnesium dust blown east from the Gobi Desert can now join heavy - metal residues wafting from smelting plants and arsenic from coal mines to contaminate soil. (slate.com)
Dead Space created a wide and diverse range of monstrous Necromorphs (reanimated human corpses left prowling an abandoned mining ship). (squarexo.co.uk)