A century ago, the federal government launched one of its most unusual and controversial investigations, bringing in teams of volunteers -- dubbed by the press the "poison squad" -- to dine on food ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before ...

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Archaeologists at Saqqara have finally identified the many embalming ingredients used to mummify the dead in ancient Egypt. They also deciphered how those different ingredients — many of which came ...