The oldest-known ice mummy consumed high amounts of fat.

The Merck biochemist found the compound that led to a popular cholesterol-lowering drug.

The Challenger expedition's data on ocean temperatures and currents, seawater chemistry, life in the deep sea, and the geology of the seafloor spurred the rise of modern oceanography.

The now-extinct gibbon was buried with the grandmother of China’s first emperor and her many pets.

Ancient bones from Ireland reveal that farming has changed nitrogen composition in land for the last 3,000 years.

Austrian-American botanist Joseph Rock collected thousands of plant samples in his 27 years in the Middle Kingdom, leaving after the Communist Party’s takeover.

William Halsted’s approach to mastectomy took the medical world by storm at the turn of the last century.

The incubator exhibitions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries publicized the care of premature babies.

French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat took on many roles over the course of his life, including physician and scientist.