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 ...

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 ...

She treats her eight-hour job both as a science and an art—but one with an unforgiving “deadline.” On a typical workday, May Cardenas, a 28-year-old biology graduate of the University of the ...