WARWICK, R.I. — We may never know what happened to Frank Hanson Jr. In the 70-plus years since the boy disappeared from his neighborhood in Cranston, nearly all of those who knew and loved him ...

That was Dr. Frank Maixner of the Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy, joining us via Skype. He's the lead researcher on a new study about the diet of Otzi, the 5,000-year-old Iceman.

He probably didn’t know it was going to be his last meal, but Otzi the Iceman’s final feast was ... cereals and traces of toxic bracken. Frank Maixner, lead author and microbiologist at ...

In his final days, the Iceman ate a hearty mountaineer’s diet ... at least under a microscope. Frank Maixner of the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies and his colleagues saw compact ...

A team led by Swiss researcher Frank Ruhli made the postmortem diagnosis using a CT scan. In a press release, Ruhli called the finding "obvious proof" of the Iceman's "extraordinary death." ...