News tagged with crime scene
Preserving arson evidence with triclosan
A preservative in toothpastes, hand soaps, underarm deodorants and other everyday products is getting a second life, helping crime scene investigators preserve evidence of arson, scientists reported here today at the 243rd National M ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Texas vulture study upends forensics
(AP) -- For more than five weeks, a woman's body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a skeleton within hours.
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Statistical model unlocks barriers to use of fingerprint evidence in court
Potentially key fingerprint evidence is currently not being considered due to shortcomings in the way it is reported, according to a report published today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and th ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Megaupload founder denies piracy, demands release
Megaupload's detained founder Monday denied wrongdoing after US authorities shut down his file-sharing website, as new details emerged of a rock-star life featuring "fast cars" and "hot girls".
Jan 23, 2012 |
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LA thieves nabbed with 'find my phone' app
Police in California probing an armed robbery arrested two suspects by using the "Find My Phone" app on her stolen iPhone to locate the device, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Notre Dame computer vision experts develop 'questionable observer detector'
It's become a standard plot device of television detective shows: criminals always return to the scene of the crime. And law enforcement officials believe that perpetrators of certain crimes, mostly notably arson, do indeed ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 11, 2011 |
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CSI: PCR-free techniques ID the most active microbes on the scene
Anyone who has watched one of the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television shows knows that PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is a technology used to amplify the tiniest samples of DNA into forensic evidence ...
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Before DNA: 20th-century forensics
Historians tend to see the birth of DNA fingerprinting in 1985 as a watershed in forensic investigation - the moment that gave birth to the systematic crime scene analysis we associate with TV programmes like ...
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Chemist contributes to development of novel method for recovering old fingerprints
A Northern Illinois University chemist is part of an international team of scientists whose work might someday crack open cold-case files.
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Quick test diagnoses bacterial or viral infection
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a new test that quickly and accurately distinguishes between bacterial and viral infections in as little as five hours.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Pinpointing the origin of corpses, fingering fake cheese and more -- with 'isoscapes'
An emerging field of science termed "isoscapes" is making it possible to pinpoint the geographical origins of illegal drugs, trafficked endangered animals, dismembered human body parts at crime scenes, and even pricey scotch ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Scientists use DNA technique to distinguish sardines from mackerel
Being able to distinguish sardines from horse mackerel has just got a little easier. Researchers in Spain used forensic mitochondrial DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) species identification techniques to genetically ...
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Physicists devise new way to analyze a bloody crime scene
Don't get him wrong: Fred Gittes is, in his words, "extremely squeamish."
May 24, 2011 |
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How sensors can detect the crime-solving clues at our fingertips
A new approach to fingerprinting using sensor technology developed at the University of Sussex could soon be helping forensics teams date and identify prints left at a crime scene - by capturing their electrical ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 20, 2011 |
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False positives rare from fingerprint examiners
In a controlled study, fingerprint examiners who determined that a crime scene-quality print matched a high-quality sample from the same individual were correct 99.8% of the time.
Apr 26, 2011 |
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