Exposed in 1953, the Piltdown Man forgery misled scientists for four decades. Charles Dawson’s fake fossils combined a medieval human skull, an orangutan jaw, and chimpanzee teeth stained to look ...

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot. “Luca, ...