Scientists are exhuming the remains of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe in an attempt to determine whether he was poisoned. Some even suspect that it was Johannes Kepler, a sort of assistant of Brahe’s at the time, who killed him.

Frankly, I don’t even know enough about science to understand what clues they can hope to gain from examining what’s left of a guy who died in 1601. But it makes for an interesting story.