Forensic News

Posted July 30, 2009:

• Invisible Ink? What Rorschach Tests Really Tell Us

Posted July 14, 2009:

• Analysis Of The Personality Of Psychopaths By Means Of Their Drawings

Posted July 13, 2009:

• New Advance In Revolutionary 'Bullet Fingerprinting' Technique

Posted July 8, 2009:

• Faster, More Cost-Effective DNA Test For Crime Scenes, Disease Diagnosis

Posted July 7, 2009:

• Analysis Of Copernicus Putative Remains Support Identity

Posted June 25, 2009:

• DNA Patterns Of Microbes

Posted June 22, 2009:

• Cold Case Techniques Bring Mummy’s Face To 'Life'

Posted June 15, 2009:

• New Research Unravels How Proteins Help Repair DNA

Posted June 8, 2009:

• Geese Involved In Hudson River Plane Crash Were Migratory

Posted June 6, 2009:

• 'Junk' DNA Proves To Be Highly Valuable

Posted June 2, 2009:

• Scholar Unconvinced New Lie-Detection Methods Better Than Old Ones

Posted June 1, 2009:

• Glucose Metabolism And Recidivism Of Severe Violent Crimes In Alcohol Intoxications

Posted May 29, 2009:

• Knock-Out Drugs: Narrow Window For Detection

Posted May 28, 2009:

• How Do Filicide Offenders Differ From Other Murderers?

Posted May 27, 2009:

• Unsafe Neighborhoods Disable The Elderly

Posted May 19, 2009:

• Substance Abuse Factor In Higher Risk Of Violent Crime By Persons With Schizophrenia

Posted May 14, 2009:

• For Adolescent Crime Victims, Genetic Factors Play Lead Role
• DNA Gripped In Nanopores: Researchers Analyze Forces On DNA In Gel

Posted May 7, 2009:

• Sexually Transmitted Infections: Transistors Used To Detect Fungus Candida Albicans

Posted May 3, 2009:

• Why People Are Better At Lying Online Than Telling A Lie Face-to-Face

Posted April 30, 2009:

• Forensic Facial Composite Software Effective In Police Investigations
• XBox Forensics

Posted April 23, 2009:

• High Marks For New Technology For Fingerprint Identification

Posted April 20, 2009:

• Barely Legal: Alcohol Does Not Appear To Affect Perceptions Of Age

Posted March 26, 2009:

• Large Users Of Sleeping Medicine, Zopiclone, Assessed As Impaired Drivers
• Organized Crime: Understanding Entrepreneurs Of The Dark Side

Posted March 13, 2009:

• Customer Contact Centers Offer Criminals Multiple Opportunities For Identity Theft, Study Shows

Posted March 12, 2009:

• New Technique Developed To Date Forensic Death Based On Corpse Microorganisms

Posted March 9, 2009:

• Show Me Your DNA And I'll Tell You Your Eye Color

Posted March 2, 2009:

• Historic Sample Of Bomb-Grade Plutonium Discovered
• More Than 20 Percent Of Sexual Assaults Drug-Facilitated

Posted February 24, 2009:

• The Science Behind The 'Anthrax Letter' Attack Investigation

Posted February 18, 2009:

• 'Badly Fragmented' Forensic Science System Needs Overhaul
• 'Suicide By Cop' Phenomenon Occurring In Over A Third Of North American Shootings Involving Police

Posted February 17, 2009:

• Traces Of Blood Are Eliminated Completely By New Products Containing Active Oxygen
• Cracking The Species Code For Plants

Posted February 11, 2009:

• Y Chromosome And Surname Study Challenges Infidelity 'Myth'

Posted February 2, 2009:

• Mental Illness By Itself Does Not Predict Future Violent Behavior, Study Finds

Posted January 29, 2009:

• Sudden Cardiac Death Without Recognizable Cause

Posted January 28, 2009:

• Witness For The Prosecution? The Effect Of Confessions On Eyewitness Testimony
• Adolescents With Unpopular Names More Prone To Committing Crime
• Ötzi’s Last Days: Glacier Man May Have Been Attacked Twice

Posted January 26, 2009:

• Telemedicine Can Dramatically Improve Child Sexual Assault Examinations In Rural Areas

Posted January 15, 2009:

• Novel Forensic Technique To Be Applied To Decade-Old Murder Probe

Posted December 23, 2008:

• DNA Profiling For Tracing Parental Ancestry Becomes More Accurate And Reliable

Posted December 4, 2008:

• Vitreous Humor In The Eye Helps To Establish Time Of Death

Posted November 29, 2008:

• Pesticides Are In For It Now

Posted November 20, 2008:

• 'America's Most Wanted' Murder Case To Be Investigated By Pioneering UK Forensic Scientist

Posted November 12, 2008:

• Improved Spectrometer Based On Nonlinear Optics

Posted October 31, 2008:

• Identifying Invasive Australian Pine Trees In Florida

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