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Bond's New Crime-Fighting Device Launched: 'Bullet Fingerprint' Visualization Technique
November 14, 2012 A 'bullet fingerprint' visualization technique pioneered by a British scientist has been commercialized in the United ... > full story -
New Strategy for Fingerprint Visualization Developed
November 6, 2012 Identifying fingerprints on paper is a commonly used method in police forensic work, but unfortunately it is not easy to make those fingerprints visible. Now, scientists have developed a new approach ... > full story -
Bullying Has Long-Term Health Consequences
October 30, 2012 Childhood bullying can lead to long term health consequences, including general and mental health issues, behavioral problems, eating disorders, smoking, alcohol use, and homelessness, a study has ... > full story -
Footwear Forensics: CSI Needs to Tread Carefully
October 26, 2012 A new computer algorithm can analyze the footwear marks left at a crime scene according to clusters of footwear types, makes and tread patterns even if the imprint recorded by crime scene ... > full story -
Perpetrator in One-Quarter of Child Sexual Abuse Cases Is a Stranger, Swedish Study Finds
October 22, 2012 Child sexual abuse is committed by strangers more than one-quarter of the time. Researchers in Sweden reviewed the records of 196 men who had been convicted of child sexual abuse in Western Sweden. ... > full story -
Research Team Develops Single-Crystal Pump for Miniaturized DNA Forensics
October 15, 2012 A research team has developed a new type of micro pump that can be used in forensic DNA profiling. The pump represents a giant leap in ... > full story -
Tying Our Fate to Molecular Markings
October 12, 2012 A physicist has helped discover that understanding how a chemical mark on our DNA affects gene expression could be as useful to scientists as fingerprints are to police at a crime scene. In a new ... > full story -
Nurture Trumps Nature in Study of Oral Bacteria in Human Twins, Study Finds
October 11, 2012 A new long-term study of human twins indicates the makeup of the population of bacteria bathing in their saliva is driven more by environmental factors than ... > full story -
Cold Cases Heat Up Through New Approach to Identifying Remains
October 10, 2012 In an effort to identify the thousands of John/Jane Doe cold cases in the United States, scientists have found a multidisciplinary approach to identifying the remains of missing persons. Using "bomb ... > full story -
From Lectures to Explosives Detection: Laser Pointer Identifies Dangerous Chemicals in Real-Time
October 10, 2012 By using an ordinary green laser pointer, the kind commonly found in lecture halls, an Israeli research team has developed a new and highly portable Raman spectrometer that can detect extremely ... > full story
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