Forensic News

Posted September 27, 2011:

• Romance Scams Online Hit Hundreds of Thousands of Victims, UK Study Finds

Posted September 26, 2011:

• Scanner Spies Document Secrets
• Public Image of Chemistry: Breaking Chemistry's Bad Rap

Posted September 21, 2011:

• CSI: Microbial Version Without PCR

Posted September 19, 2011:

• Health-Based Approach May Help ID Groups at Risk of Genocide
• Genetic Defect That Leaves Some Without Fingerprints: Researchers Trace Cause to Rare Mutation

Posted September 9, 2011:

• Groundbreaking DNA Tests Could Trap Deer Poachers

Posted August 28, 2011:

• Hollywood Screenwriters and Scientists: More Than an Artistic Collaboration

Posted August 24, 2011:

• Source of Haitian Cholera Outbreak Uncovered

Posted August 23, 2011:

• Researchers Track Source of Haitian Cholera Outbreak; Lessons from 2001 Anthrax Case Help Pinpoint Source of Disease

Posted August 22, 2011:

• Happiness Can Deter Crime, a New Study Finds

Posted August 5, 2011:

• Right to Remain Silent Not Understood by Many Suspects; Confusion About Constitutional Rights Can Lead to Self-Incrimination, Psychologist Reports

Posted July 29, 2011:

• Pioneering Fingermark Technology Uses Mass Spectrometry Imaging to Provide Crime Scene Investigators With Key Extra Details

Posted July 27, 2011:

• Organized Crime Is Wiping out Wildlife, Report Finds

Posted July 26, 2011:

• Coho Salmon at Risk in U.S. Urbanizing Watersheds

Posted July 20, 2011:

• Test for Classifying Force Used in Bottle Stabbings: New Study Aids Understanding of Force Required for Creating Injury

Posted June 28, 2011:

• Rockin' Tortoises: A 150-Year-Old New Species

Posted June 27, 2011:

• Student Publishes Case for Faster, Less Expensive DNA Analysis

Posted June 22, 2011:

• Scientists Accurately Predict Age With Saliva Sample

Posted June 21, 2011:

• Earliest Art in the Americas: Ice Age Image of Mammoth or Mastodon Found in Florida

Posted June 15, 2011:

• UK First Use of 3-D Imaging Derived from Post-Mortem Computed Tomography Imaging in UK Trial

Posted June 14, 2011:

• Forensics: Lamps and Spectrometers Used to Age Bruises Precisely

Posted June 13, 2011:

• Tool Developed to Predict Violence and Aggression in Children and Teens

Posted June 8, 2011:

• Saving Wildlife With Forensic Genetics

Posted June 6, 2011:

• Brain Scans Appear to Show Changes Associated With Violent Behavior

Posted May 31, 2011:

• Diagnosing Stomach Disease in Pet Reptiles

Posted May 27, 2011:

• Cystic Fibrosis-Associated Bacteria Could Help Fight Back Against Antibiotic Resistance

Posted May 24, 2011:

• Sardines and Horse Mackerel Identified Using Forensic Techniques
• New Way to Analyze a Bloody Crime Scene: Chicken Wing Sauce and Trigonometry Brought to Bear on CSI Enigma

Posted May 11, 2011:

• Dusting for Fingerprints -- It Ain't CSI
• Digital Forensic Examiners Face Stress, Role-Conflict

Posted May 10, 2011:

• How to Tell When Someone's Lying: Psychologist Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Tell Truth from Deception

Posted April 26, 2011:

• Medical Evidence of Torture Neglected in Guantánamo Bay Detainees, Suggests Review of Records

Posted April 21, 2011:

• Historic Church's Subterranean Secrets Revealed

Posted April 14, 2011:

• Human Factors/ergonomics Research Leads to Improved Bunk Bed Safety Standards

Posted April 13, 2011:

• Gangs Don't Protect Against Crime, Study Suggests

Posted April 12, 2011:

• Forensics: Developing a Tool for Identification -- Even Using Very Degraded DNA Samples

Posted April 11, 2011:

• Pharmacogenetics Testing Offers Way to Reduce Deaths from Drug Toxicity

Posted April 5, 2011:

• DNA Stretching: New Technique to Detect Illnesses

Posted April 4, 2011:

• Facial Structures of Men and Women Have Become More Similar Over Time

Posted March 31, 2011:

• Mysteries of Jupiter and Saturn Rings: Forensic Sleuthing Ties Ring Ripples to Impacts

Posted March 28, 2011:

• Demographics Cloud Optimism on African-American Violent Crime Decrease

Posted March 23, 2011:

• Long-Term Methadone Treatment Can Affect the Brain

Posted March 22, 2011:

• Forensics: Overweight People Really Are Big-Boned

Posted March 11, 2011:

• Predicting Future Appearance: New Computer-Based Technique Ages Photographic Images of People's Faces

Posted March 7, 2011:

• Microbial Forensics Used to Solve the Case of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks

Posted March 3, 2011:

• Method Developed to Match Police Sketch, Mug Shot: Algorithms and Software Will Match Sketches With Mugshots in Police Databases

Posted March 1, 2011:

• Building Trust With Cooperative Witnesses in a Crime Investigation
• New Non-Surgical Autopsy Technique Set to Revolutionize Post-Mortem Practice

Posted February 19, 2011:

• Enhancing Nuclear Security

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