On December 7, 1909, Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland’s process patent for making Bakelite was granted, two years after ...

A BUSINESS is changing the game by giving families the opportunity to give their loved ones a greener goodbye with eco-friendly cardboard coffins. Parley Green, which is part of Mauveworx in Ferndown, ...

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In the event of an attack or the need to burrow, the venomous Glycera dibranchiata bloodworms can “explosively” turn their appendage, which normally remains concealed within their bodies, inside out.

Two days after the shooting, the fallen president's casket was lying in state at the Capitol Building. His first casket was ...

The world’s first onsite airport mortuary, Mortuarium Schiphol handles hundreds of “passengers” per year, arranging post-mortem care for travelers who die in-flight or abroad from their home country.

Reuters published some 1.6 million photos in 2025, capturing the personal and the political, triumph and tragedy, as ...

It’s unavoidable. If you go to a game, the ballpark grub being served is going to be as much a part of the experience as the ...

Deep inside North Carolina, there is an abandoned funeral home where the owner was paid to cremate two bodies but never did. The bodies were discovered stored inside the old funeral home, hidden in ...

It is a series of events that took place in India and the UK that have led the family to question whether they were given ...

THERE was a time when a weekend in Dar es Salaam, Arusha or Moshi felt like an eccentric colonial radio broadcast drifting ...

Among Japan’s many traditional handicrafts, urushi (lacquerware) stands out as one of the oldest. Urushi comes from the varnish made from the sap of the urushinoki, better known in English as the ...