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Towards the Origin of America's First Settlers
April 17, 2013 — The international scientific community faces the exciting challenge of discovering the origin of America's first settlers. A new publication shapes some alternatives to the hypothesis of a single ... > full story -
Memory, the Adolescent Brain and Lying: The Limits of Neuroscientific Evidence in the Law
April 16, 2013 — Brain scans are increasingly able to reveal whether you believe you remember some person or event in your life. In a new study, researchers used fMRI brain scans to detect whether a person recognized ... > full story -
College Admission Questions Rarely Identify Criminal Behavior
April 16, 2013 — A new study shows that neither criminal background checks nor pre-admission screening questions accurately predict students likely to commit crime on college ... > full story -
High Salt Levels in Saharan Groundwater Endanger Oases Farming
April 8, 2013 — For more than 40 years, snowmelt and runoff from Morocco's High Atlas Mountains has been dammed and redirected hundreds of kilometers to the south to irrigate oases farms in the arid, sub-Saharan ... > full story -
Seeing Happiness in Ambiguous Facial Expressions Reduces Aggressive Behavior
March 28, 2013 — Encouraging young people at high-risk of criminal offending and delinquency to see happiness rather than anger in facial expressions results in a decrease in their levels of anger and aggression, ... > full story -
Dusting for Prints from a Fossil Fish to Understand Evolutionary Change
March 27, 2013 — In 370-million-year-old red sandstone deposits in a highway roadcut, scientists have discovered a new species of armored fish in north central Pennsylvania. Studying and describing this fish's ... > full story -
Saliva Testing Predicts Aggression in Boys
March 26, 2013 — A new study indicates that a simple saliva test could be an effective tool in predicting violent ... > full story -
Study Explores Gang Activity on the Internet
March 26, 2013 — Gangs are not using the Internet to recruit new members or commit complex cybercrimes, according to a new ... > full story -
Urban Vegetation Deters Crime in Philadelphia
March 25, 2013 — A new study of Philadelphia found that abundant vegetation, when well-maintained, can deter certain types of crime -- particularly assault and robbery. The study is the first to look at the issue ... > full story
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