New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes

Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 19:56 in Psychology & Sociology

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2009 -- In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint of death.

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