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...

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In 2014, three Japanese physicists received the Nobel Prize in Physics: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for their invention of the blue LEDs. But the story behind it is probably one that the ordinary per...

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The way this video begins will make you think it's...  ...you should read the many posts we've shared about arsenic . In other words, Giulia Tofana was a 17th-century...

Carl Scheele was an 18th century chemist who had s...  ...ular, especially in wallpaper. It was loaded with arsenic , however, which was released into the air when fu...  ...that he had, over time, consumed a fair amount of arsenic , chlorine, and other heavy metals along the way....

Is risking your life to be attractive ever worth i...  ...Victorian era, namely consumption chic, corsets, arsenic baths, and wildly dangerous makeup ingredients. W...

It wasn't until 1840 that James Marsh developed a...  ...a test to determine if someone had been killed by arsenic , changing forensic science forever. But the idea...

Fashion has always been influenced by status, and...  ...ere were hiccups along the way, like the lead and arsenic cosmetics women used to make their skin pale, and...