{"id":242195,"date":"2026-08-04T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/brains-dont-always-rot-scientists-may-finally-know-how-human-brains-have-evaded-decay-for-thousands-of-years"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:03:44","slug":"brains-dont-always-rot-scientists-may-finally-know-how-human-brains-have-evaded-decay-for-thousands-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/brains-dont-always-rot-scientists-may-finally-know-how-human-brains-have-evaded-decay-for-thousands-of-years","title":{"rendered":"Brains don\u2019t always rot: Scientists may finally know how human brains have evaded decay for thousands of years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brains-dont-always-rot-scientists-may-finally-know-how-human-brains-have-evaded-decay-for-thousands-of-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of skeletal human remains have been discovered with their brain tissue unexpectedly intact. Now, a team of scientists may have finally figured out why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of skeletal human remains have been discovered with their brain tissue unexpectedly intact. Now, a team of scientists may have finally figured out why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}