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Forensics
Illustration of rat climbing down a ship's mooring rope with a city in the distance

San Francisco’s Plague Years

Distillations Article
Photo of Anton Chekhov with glasses and hat

The Death of Anton Chekhov, Told in Proteins

Distillations Article
Tollund Man

Bodies in the Bog: The Lindow Mysteries

Distillations Article

The Parasites in Our Past

Distillations Article

Harry versus the Volcano

Distillations Article

Stradivari and the Search for Brilliance

Distillations Article
Model 700 Dual-Column Gas Chromatograph, the Institute Collections

Model 700 Dual-Column Gas Chromatograph
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U.S. postal inspectors, ca. early 20th century

Under Cover of Ink

Distillations Article

Behind the Skulls at the Mütter Museum

Distillations Video

Stranger Than Fiction

Distillations Article
Portrait of Dorothy Sayers, progenitor of forensic-based crime fiction. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Forensic Chemistry in Golden-Age Detective Fiction: Dorothy L. Sayers and the CSI Effect

Distillations Article
Pottery shards and bones

The Teeth Beneath Your Feet: Oddities in Urban Archaeology

Distillations Podcast

Mummies Up Close

Distillations Video
Human skull

Digging Up the Bodies: Debunking CSI and Other Forensics Myths

Distillations Podcast

Return to the Scene

Distillations Article

Crime Fighters

Distillations Podcast
Alfred Swaine Taylor on poisons

Palmer the Poisoner

Distillations Article
A phrenological map of the brain

Entered into Evidence

Distillations Article

Criminal Chemistry

Distillations Podcast
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