The science behind using crash test dummies to determine the effects of car crashes on the human body only dates to the 1960s.

In 1973, an experiment with dyed food and colorful lights had participants vomiting up their half-finished meals. But did it really happen?

For centuries, a fork-tailed mythical creature that lurks in the pinelands of the Garden State has served as a reminder of the horrors that result when reproductive freedoms are destroyed.

Cold cream has been around since ancient Greek times. But what’s it actually for?

One of the first female investigative reporters, Nellie Bly shone a light on the plight of American women by facing the world head on.

Humans like to seal collections of ephemera in containers that they then hide in soon-to-be-forgotten places. Whither the time capsule?

Between 1920 and the 1960s, tens of thousands of people received treatment with a Spectro-Chrome to address various ailments.

Said to bestow strength and beauty, to purify body and soul, and to yield success and happiness, milk’s image is as adulterated as the liquid itself.

When medical professionals joined anti-vice campaigners to censor publications about sex in the 1800s, they found themselves wielding a double-edged sword.

Believing in ghosts wasn’t a class marker until the 1820s, when suddenly the educated classes tried to convince the masses that these apparitions were delusions.