2016年10月18日 · Behind a high-security fence at a secret bushland location outside of Sydney lies one of the only body farms in the world, where scientists are studying the various ways human corpses decompose.

Until now, human decomposition has only been studied in the USA at facilities colloquially known as ‘body farms’. These facilities carry out research through the invaluable donation of willed bodies to forensic science.

More than 30 people have offered to donate their cadavers to Australia's first body farm since it was announced four months ago.

It is located near Yarramundi in the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, on a patch of land owned by the University of Technology, Sydney, and it is the first body farm outside the United States. It was established as research has demonstrated that differing environmental conditions mean that the findings of body farm analysis in the United States ...

2015年11月17日 · University of Technology, Sydney, forensic chemist Shari Forbes has confirmed the country’s first so-called “body farm”, a 48-hectare bush site in the Hawkesbury region on the outskirts of Sydney, will be ready in January 2016.

2023年3月12日 · On the far outskirts of Sydney behind a razor wire-topped 2.4m steel fence, a world first research experiment on the dead that could help police solve murders is taking place at a secret bushland...

2015年10月15日 · But now more than 30 people have announced that they'll be donating their bodies to the lab after death, and the university has announced they may begin work on around six human specimens as early as next year.

2019年9月12日 · Researchers at Australia's first 'human body farm' have observed that dead bodies move significantly when they decompose and believe the movement could be important in death investigations. Researcher Alyson Wilson made the discovery using time-lapse cameras to film the decomposition of a donor body in 30-minute intervals over 17 months.

2017年7月25日 · On a piece of bush owned by UTS in the lower Blue Mountains, a group of scientists are researching a very specific smell: that of human remains left to decompose in the Australian bush. By...

Incredibly the hectares of exposed and decaying flesh are helping solve some of Australia's grisliest murders and missing person cases. In America body farms have proven a vital forensic tool, where investigators are able to study rates of human decomposition.