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  Digging Up A Serial Killer's Century-Old Secrets

  January 9, 2008 — Growing up in La Porte, Ind., Andrea Simmons couldn't help hearing tales of the city's most notorious former resident, a so-called "black widow" and "Lady Bluebeard" who amassed a fortune during a ... > full story
• Brain Injury
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  Violent Shaking Pulps The Infant Brain, Forensic Researchers Find

  January 7, 2008 — Each year in the United States, one thousand infants die after being shaken. An equal number of cases result in brain damage. Many people who are guilty of this type of abuse go free due to a lack of ... > full story
• Computers and Internet
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  New Technology Protects Internet Advertisers From Click Fraud

  January 7, 2008 — New technology that protects Internet advertisers from "click fraud" -- falsely driving up hits to ads on Web pages. The extra clicks drive up costs for pay-per-click ... > full story
• Ancient Civilizations
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  New Report On First Death By Spearing In Australia

  January 1, 2008 — "Ritual punishment using barbed death spears was witnessed at European contact in the Sydney region," one of the researchers said. "The Narrabeen man provides early archaeological evidence for ritual ... > full story
• Children's Health
  Child Psychology
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  Accident and Trauma
  Child Development
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  Dads Break Bones Of Children More Often Than Moms

  December 5, 2007 — Dads break or fracture the bones of their children far more often than moms, and they tend to inflict their abusive rage on infants younger than five months old, according to a study in Child Abuse ... > full story
• Intelligence
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  Simple Test Improves Accuracy Of Polygraph Results

  November 28, 2007 — In order to prevent false positive results in polygraph examinations, testing is set to err on the side of caution. This protects the innocent, but increases the chances that a guilty suspect will go ... > full story
• Accident and Trauma
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  Medical Technology
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  Forensics Go High-Tech With CT Autopsies

  November 27, 2007 — Radiologists are investigating the use of computed tomography as a tool for civilian medical examiners' autopsies in the US. CT autopsy has the potential to replace conventional autopsy in ... > full story
• Forensics
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  Biometric
  Today's Healthcare
  Immune System
   
  

  New Automated System IDs Victims Of Mass Disasters In Minutes

  November 27, 2007 — A new, high-tech identification system developed in Japan will improve accuracy and significantly reduce the time it takes to identify victims of mass disasters, according to a new ... > full story
• Hacking
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  Consumer Behavior
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  Less Is More When Fighting Crime

  November 19, 2007 — Both crime and prison populations could be reduced dramatically by focusing on the 'power few' criminals who commit the most crime. Using data across a wide range of research, scientists show that ... > full story
• Nature of Water
  Microarrays
  Electronics
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  Engineering
   
  

  Micro Microwave Does Pinpoint Cooking For Miniaturized Labs

  November 8, 2007 — Researchers have demonstrated what is probably the world's smallest microwave oven, a tiny mechanism that can heat a pinhead-sized drop of liquid inside a container slightly shorter than an ant and ... > full story

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