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Forensics
Engraving of a woman making paper

Chasing the Clues in Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts

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Photo of woman exiting building surrounded by news cameras

Why Did Annie Dookhan Lie?

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Bust of pekin man

Parking Lot or Peking Lot?

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

San Francisco’s Plague Years

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Photo of Anton Chekhov with glasses and hat

The Death of Anton Chekhov, Told in Proteins

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Tollund Man

Bodies in the Bog: The Lindow Mysteries

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The Parasites in Our Past

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Harry versus the Volcano

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Stradivari and the Search for Brilliance

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Model 700 Dual-Column Gas Chromatograph, the Institute Collections

Model 700 Dual-Column Gas Chromatograph

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Behind the Skulls at the Mütter Museum

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Stranger Than Fiction

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U.S. postal inspectors, ca. early 20th century

Under Cover of Ink

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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

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Mummies Up Close

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Return to the Scene

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Alfred Swaine Taylor on poisons

Palmer the Poisoner

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A phrenological map of the brain

Entered into Evidence

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