Forensic News

Posted January 18, 2012:

• Dangerous Choking 'Game' Prevalent Among Teens in Texas
• Study Maps Destructive Path from Cigarette to Emphysema

Posted January 16, 2012:

• Traditional Physical Autopsies – Not High-Tech 'Virtopsies' – Still the Gold Standard for Determining Cause of Death, Experts Claim

Posted January 13, 2012:

• Software for Analyzing Digital Pathology Images Proving Its Usefulness

Posted January 10, 2012:

• Satellite Imagery Detects Thermal 'Uplift' Signal of Underground Nuclear Tests

Posted January 3, 2012:

• Scientists Crack Medieval Bone Code

Posted December 9, 2011:

• Pharmacists Crucial in Plan for Terrorist Chemical Weapons

Posted December 8, 2011:

• Catching Terrorists: Backpacks, Not the Bombs Inside, Key to Finding DNA

Posted December 7, 2011:

• New Biometric Data Standard Adds DNA, Footmarks and Enhanced Fingerprint Descriptions

Posted December 6, 2011:

• Genetic Markers Help Feds Enforce Seafood Regulations

Posted November 30, 2011:

• Research Shows the Power of Hand Gestures in Police Interviews

Posted November 17, 2011:

• Vultures Dying at Alarming Rate

Posted November 16, 2011:

• False Confessions May Lead to More Errors in Evidence, Study Shows

Posted November 10, 2011:

• Prototype Hand-Held Drug Testing Device Launched

Posted November 3, 2011:

• Secluding Aggressive Young Offenders Is Always the Last Resort, Four-Country Study Finds

Posted November 1, 2011:

• Digging Up Clues: Research on Buried Blow Flies to Help Crime Scene Investigators

Posted October 31, 2011:

• Fighting Violent Gang Crime With Math

Posted October 13, 2011:

• Tests to Catch the Makers of Dangerous 'Legal High' Designer Drugs

Posted October 11, 2011:

• Computer Vision Experts Develop 'Questionable Observer Detector'
• Uncharted Territory: Scientists Sequence the First Carbohydrate Biopolymer
• Some Youth Too Immature to Stand Trial, Experts Say

Posted October 6, 2011:

• How Fair Sanctions Are Orchestrated in the Brain

Posted October 4, 2011:

• Form Follows Family -- Not Function: Humans and Chimpanzees Have Similar Long Bone Shape

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 13, 2011:

• New Technique for Dating Silk

Posted September 9, 2011:

• Groundbreaking DNA Tests Could Trap Deer Poachers

Posted August 30, 2011:

• Studies Question Effectiveness of Sex Offender Laws

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 July 7, 2011:

• New Plant Genus, Species Discovered in St. Johns River, Florida

Posted July 6, 2011:

• Nano Detector for Deadly Anthrax

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
• New Technique Yields Troves of Information from Nanoscale Bone Samples

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

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