News tagged with crime scene
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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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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TV crime drama compound highlights immune cells' misdeeds
Detectives on television shows often spray crime scenes with a compound called luminol to make blood glow. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have applied the same compound to much smaller ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 22, 2009 |
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X-rays show why van Gogh paintings lose their shine
Scientists using synchrotron X-rays have identified the chemical reaction in two van Gogh paintings that alters originally bright yellow colors into brown shades.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 14, 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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Forensic test to identify hair color from DNA
Watch out would-be criminals, because new tools are on the way that could make crime pay even less. A group of European researchers has laid the foundation for a test that can identify hair color from DNA ...
Jan 11, 2011 |
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New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes
In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Aug 17, 2009 |
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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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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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Israeli scientists find way to combat forged DNA
Israeli scientists have developed new technology to fight biological identity theft after realising that DNA evidence found at crime scenes can be easily falsified.
Aug 20, 2009 |
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No place to hide: New 360 degree video surveillance system uses image stitching technology
Traditional surveillance cameras can be of great assistance to law enforcement officers for a range of scenarios -- canvassing a crowd for criminal activity, searching for who left a suitcase beneath a bench, ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Innovative approach to teaching forensics helps students track and solve crimes
A novel approach to teaching forensics at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Forensic Anthropology Field School is using global positioning systems (GPS) and geographical information systems (GIS) to examine complex ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 13, 2010 |
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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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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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Researchers rest their case: TV consumption predicts opinions about criminal justice system
People who watch forensic and crime dramas on TV are more likely than non-viewers to have a distorted perception of America's criminal justice system, according to new research from Purdue University.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 28, 2009 |
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