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Improving Overall Safety Of New York City Subway Systems
December 16, 2008 Structural interventions and public safety messages may be the most effective ways to prevent subway fatalities and improve the overall safety of New York City subway systems, according to a new ... > full story -
How The Brain Thinks About Crime And Punishment
December 10, 2008 A new study reveals that humans use different neural mechanisms for determining criminal responsibility and assigning an appropriate punishment. The research, published in the journal Neuron, ... > full story -
Boy-Girl Bullying In Middle Grades More Common Than Previously Thought
December 9, 2008 Much more cross-gender bullying -- specifically, unpopular boys harassing popular girls -- occurs in later elementary school grades than previously thought, meaning educators should take reports of ... > full story -
China's Paradoxical Policies On HIV And Drug Use Threaten Health, Experts Argue
December 8, 2008 Injection drug users sentenced to compulsory detention under China's paradoxical policies on HIV/AIDS and narcotics suffer human rights abuses that may imperil their health, says a new study ... > full story -
Vitreous Humor In The Eye Helps To Establish Time Of Death
December 4, 2008 Scientists have proposed a new method to estimate the approximate time of death. This is based on the analysis of several substances from the vitreous humor of the eye of cadavers, according to an ... > full story -
Cleanliness Makes People Less Severe In Moral Judgments
December 1, 2008 New research in Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments, showing that intuition, rather than deliberate reasoning ... > full story -
'America's Most Wanted' Murder Case To Be Investigated By Pioneering UK Forensic Scientist
November 20, 2008 A murder case on America's Most Wanted list is to be tackled by a forensic scientist at the University of Leicester and Northamptonshire ... > full story -
Improved Spectrometer Based On Nonlinear Optics
November 12, 2008 Scientists have created a new highly sensitive infrared spectrometer. The device converts light from the infrared part of the spectrum to the visible part, where the availability of superior optical ... > full story -
DNA Provides 'Smoking Gun' In The Case Of The Missing Songbirds
November 4, 2008 DNA evidence shows conclusively that males from a North American warbler species interbred with females from a related species and took over a large part of the other species' ... > full story -
Criminal Offenders: Childhood Anxiety May Delay Onset Of Criminal Behavior Until After Age 21
November 3, 2008 A new study examines whether certain childhood traits in boys delay criminal behavior until after the age of ... > full story
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