Articles by Natalie Zarrelli

One of her spies signed his reports with a familiar moniker: "007."

Trump’s celebrity past may have been his biggest political advantage.

From altered voices to "infrasound," these audio tricks spook and unsettle.

Building devices to talk with the dead was a popular diversion for inventors in the 1920s.

Artificial intelligence might thwart art forgers once and for all.

The Salton Sea is a polluted accident turned natural resource, and the government is finally giving it funding.

Runaway weddings had blacksmiths, cobblers and mole-catchers as priests.

Meet Lady Margaret Cavendish.

Bygone centers for activism, secret love, and glittery drag shows are being revived through story.

How roving "cooping" gangs got voters drunk and disturbed the democratic process.

Why the FDA owes its existence to 12 men eating poisoned meals.

From Ancient Greece through the 18th century, bedbugs were used as medicine.

But the women's-only Olympics of 1922 disproved doctors, doubters, and the IOC.

Victorian life preservers invited both drowning and mockery.

Broadsides were the Facebook posts and tweets of their day.

Seasteading is the biggest DIY project in the world—but everyone wants something different.

A century of couples pinning their marital woes on felines.

Classical poets loved cicadas so much they wrote odes to them.

Victorians came up with the idea.

Meet the meat raffle, a British bar tradition transported to the U.S.

The rise and fall of medical cadaver ceremonies.

We should have taken the disease more seriously before it killed a million trees, though.

The most dangerous job in Glasgow was being an ice cream man.

How a deaf utopia was uncovered in the 1970s.