Can The Leaves of Plants Help Us Find Buried Human Remains? – ScienceAlert

You’d think a plant scientist would feel at home on a farm, but Neil Stewart was used to working with potatoes, not human cadavers. 
Fascinated by environmental contaminants, Stewart was on tour at the University of Tennessee’s ‘body farm’ – more formally known as the Anthropology Research Facility – where forensic anthropologists study the effects of human decomposition on a few acres of specially designated land. 
It was a little unnerving.
“I tried to distract myself from the bodies and lo…

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