Grieving families tasked with laying a loved one to rest normally can choose from among conventional burial, cremation, or donating the body to science. Maplewood Cemetery has introduced another ...

Conventional funeral services can involve harsh, even toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde-based embalming fluid and natural resources such as various woods and metals. Maplewood, for natural ...

In this image taken from a video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday ...

Formaldehyde may be one of the biggest cancer-causing air pollutants out there — and a new study allows you to track your ...

which says that formaldehyde — a chemical with a wide variety of household and industrial uses, including in embalming fluids — contributes "more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic ...

However, many funeral homes require at least 1% of embalming fluid to be formaldehyde before they'll allow a public viewing of the body. "We encourage whatever families want because we're in the ...

A major concern is formaldehyde, commonly used in embalming, a hazardous chemical released during e-cigarette use. This substance endangers both users and those exposed to the vapour, potentially ...

The objective of the recent experiment by De Wit and their colleagues was to manipulate fluids to reliably control the properties of chemical waves. To do this, the team subjected a reactive ...

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