When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Imagine you're Edward Teller and you've spent years of your life probing the mysteries of the atom and finally invented a nuclear bomb. That happened with the...

After World War II, the race was on for the US to build more and better technology than the Soviet Union, which gave us many weird projects that were launched without anyone asking what could possibly go wrong. Space, be...

Mateo Zielonka is a world-renowned pasta chef who recently published a cookbook teaching his craft.He's made astonishingly realistic pasta versions of household objects, such as cookpots, and logos, such as the shield of...

Look at the size of this pumpkin on the banks of t...  ...ssolved metals, including a high concentration of arsenic . Yes, people swim in it, although it is not recom...

Parents are understandably wary about their childr...  ...hat each bite-sized candy contained twice as much arsenic as it required to kill someone! By then, it was t...

According to the available statistics, there are 13,162 nuclear weapons in the world today. That's a lot, considering how we know from experience that the most you need to defeat an enemy is two. However, that experience...

P.J. Nelson looks back on the mid-century crimes...  ...025 Remember the other day when I theorized that arsenic poisonings aren't as common since we developed me...

We've posted quite a few stories about arsenic over the past twenty years here at Neatorama beca...  ...in an autopsy can detect not only the presence of arsenic , but the amount and the day it was ingested. Arsenic is colorless, odorless, and throughout most of hi...

Robin Duska is a volunteer at the National Museum...  ...an autopsy in 1969 showed that Hall had ingested arsenic . Did Hall have any enemies aboard ship? Yes, many...

Let's pause for a moment and have a light-hearted discussion on which among the zodiac signs have the most knack for comedy, according to this ranking created by Reader's Digest with some help from astrologers Liz Simmon...