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  CT Best at Uncovering Drug Mule Payload, Study Finds

  December 1, 2010 — According to a study, the best way to detect cocaine in the body of a human drug courier, known as a mule, is through computed ... > full story
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  World's Fastest Camera Takes a New Look at Biosensing

  November 30, 2010 — Scientists have developed a Megaframe Imager -- an ultrafast camera capable of recording images at the incredible rate of one million ... > full story
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  New Guidance Issued for First Responders Collecting Suspected Biothreat Agents

  November 24, 2010 — The US National Institute of Standards and Technology and a coalition of federal, state and local agencies and other organizations have updated a standard and provided overall guidance and ... > full story
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  Age Estimation from Blood Has Immediate Forensic Application

  November 22, 2010 — Scientists have devised a method that would allow them to estimate the age of crime suspects or missing persons from blood collected at the scene of a crime. In principle, the new profiling method ... > full story
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  Seeing the Invisible: New 'CSI Tool' Visualizes Bloodstains and Other Substances

  November 10, 2010 — Snap an image of friends in front of a window curtain and the camera captures the people -- and invisible blood stains splattered on the curtain during a murder. Sound unlikely? Chemists are ... > full story
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  Some City Trees May Discourage 'Shady' Behavior; Study Explores Relationship Between Urban Trees and Crime

  November 1, 2010 — Along with energy conservation and storm-water reduction, scientists may soon be adding crime-fighting to the list of benefits that urban trees provide. Researchers have published a new study that ... > full story
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  Towards Better Explosives Detectors

  October 21, 2010 — Over the past decade, a team of scientists in Maryland have been working to stop the threat of terrorist-based attacks in the form of explosives or explosive-based devices, by providing a sound ... > full story
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  Forensic Scientists Use Postmortem Imaging-Guided Biopsy to Determine Natural Causes of Death

  October 21, 2010 — Researchers found that the combination of computed tomography, postmortem CT angiography and biopsy can serve as a minimally invasive option for determining natural causes of death such as cardiac ... > full story
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  Forensic Metal Fingerprinting: Simple, Handheld Device Which Can Measure Corrosion on Machine Parts

  October 20, 2010 — Groundbreaking research into fingerprint detection now has an industrial application, thanks to a new invention by the scientist who developed the technique. Dr John Bond's method of identifying ... > full story
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  Rotten Experiments Help to Create Picture of Our Early Ancestors

  October 12, 2010 — An innovative experiment that involved studying rotting fish has helped to create a clearer picture of what our early ancestors would have looked like. The scientists wanted to examine the decaying ... > full story

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