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Posted April 8, 2012:

• New 'Genetic Bar Code' Technique Establishes Ability to Derive DNA Information from RNA

Posted March 28, 2012:

• Interrogational Torture: Effective or Purely Sadistic?
• Online Dating Scammers Looking for Money, Not Love
• Exploding Dinosaur Hypothesis Implodes

Posted March 23, 2012:

• Marine Forensics Expert Seeks to Vindicate Titanic Survivors' Account
• Archaeologists Reconstruct Diet of Nelson's Navy With New Chemical Analysis of Excavated Bones

Posted March 13, 2012:

• Just 60 Seconds of Combat Can Impair Memory, Finds Study of Police Officers

Posted February 29, 2012:

• Foot Bones Allow Researchers to Determine Sex of Skeletal Remains

Posted February 23, 2012:

• Underage Drinking Laws Reduce Future Criminal Behavior
• Illegal Orangutan Trader Prosecuted

Posted February 9, 2012:

• Potential for Incorrect Relationship Identification in New Forensic Familial Searching Techniques
• Barriers to the Use of Fingerprint Evidence in Court Is Unlocked by Statistical Model

Posted February 6, 2012:

• Physical Punishment of Children Potentially Harmful to Their Long-Term Development

Posted January 25, 2012:

• Genes Influence Criminal Behavior, Research Suggests

Posted January 23, 2012:

• Unilateral Divorce Laws Caused Temporary Spike in Violent Crime

Posted January 20, 2012:

• Physicists Use Ion Beams to Detect Art Forgery

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 5, 2012:

• Bird Smuggler Busted in Indonesia

Posted January 3, 2012:

• Scientists Crack Medieval Bone Code
• New Forms of Torture Leave 'Invisible Scars,' Say Researchers

Posted December 14, 2011:

• New Test Could Help Track Down and Prosecute Terrorists Who Use Nerve Gas and Other Agents

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 7, 2011:

• Fatherhood Can Help Change a Man's Bad Habits

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 14, 2011:

• Psychopathic Killers: Computerized Text Analysis Uncovers the Word Patterns of a Predator
• Social Media Study Reveals Unreported Truths on the Nature of Street Protests, Experts Say

Posted October 11, 2011:

• Computer Vision Experts Develop 'Questionable Observer Detector'
• Some Youth Too Immature to Stand Trial, Experts Say

Posted October 6, 2011:

• Race Disparity Found in Post-Hospital Arrival Homicide Deaths at Trauma Centers
• How Fair Sanctions Are Orchestrated in the Brain

Posted October 5, 2011:

• Here, There, Everywhere: Reward and Penalty Processing Is Widespread in the Human Brain

Posted October 4, 2011:

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

Posted October 3, 2011:

• Examining Motherly Fears

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

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