Humanity has always searched for a magic pill to r...  ...Read about snake oil, cocaine wine, radium cream, arsenic

<p>When by some chance the superpowers of the world decide to launch their nuclear arsenal, there might not be a lot who would survive the impact. Apart from cockroaches, this aircraft designed during the Cold War...

In 1945, we delivered nuclear bombs by plane. Today, a nuclear arsenal contains ICBMs to deliver nuclear destruction by rocket. In between, one idea for nuclear firepower was to shoot it from a cannon. Engineer Robert M....

In the mid-19th century, quite a few high profile...  ...file cases of women poisoning their husbands with arsenic shocked Victorian England and the US. It was the...  ...loveless or abusive marriage, and a new test for arsenic was uncovering what had earlier been an easy crim...  ...gastric illness, and his rem...

The Civil War Photo Sleuth is on a mission to identify all the people whose pictures were taken during the Civil War era. They have developed a new facial recognition software that enables them to match the face to the n...

A hundred years ago, in the autumn of 1918, the Great War was dragging on, so Philadelphia threw a parade to raise morale and sell war bonds called "Liberty Loans." The parade highlighted any available soldiers and sailo...

Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton had a distinguishe...  ...knowledge of poisons.After an enormous amount of arsenic was discovered in the dead man’s body&mdash...

[https://youtu.be/E4nZDSLdIiM] (YouTube link)Giant...  ...in 2004. They left behind 237,000 metric tons of arsenic trioxide as a side effect of the mining operation...  ...ration, although that amount does not include the arsenic that has escaped into the environment. You can re...  ...The Canadian government wa...

Sometimes the difference between victory and defeat is a mighty arsenal of weapons capable of tearing the enemy to bits and armor that cannot be penetrated by any manmade weapons.And then there's the argument that traini...

Common sense will tell you that venting your emotions will make you feel better, but it's always good to have empirical evidence. A new study shows that torturing a voodoo doll of your boss is an effective way to restore...