Australia has 2,000 missing persons and 500 unidentified human remains – a dedicated lab could find matches
It's been 52 years since the Beaumont children disappeared from Glenelg beach, Adelaide on Australia Day 1966.
It's been 52 years since the Beaumont children disappeared from Glenelg beach, Adelaide on Australia Day 1966.
Other
Jan 31, 2018
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Missouri Botanical Garden researchers used DNA testing to rediscover Dracaena umbraculifera, which was thought to be extinct. The methods and results were published in Oryx. The authors include Garden researchers in both ...
Ecology
Jan 8, 2018
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A study that used DNA tests to analyse the scats of one of the world's most numerous albatrosses has revealed surprising results about the top predator's diet.
Ecology
Oct 18, 2017
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Kyle Ewart has developed a test that can identify whether a horn is rhino or not – fast enough to allow police to prosecute poachers, traders and customers.
Ecology
Jul 3, 2017
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For the first time, scientists have recorded a spring fish migration simply by conducting DNA tests on water samples.
Ecology
Apr 12, 2017
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As we enter an era in which DNA evidence is routinely used in criminal investigations, errors that led to wrongful convictions—including mistakes later corrected with DNA tests—may seem to be fading into history. This, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2017
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Despite the vast diversity of organisms on the planet that express enzymes for the conversion of carbon dioxide into such organic compounds as sugars - as plants do through photosynthesis - the efforts to harness these capabilities ...
Biotechnology
Nov 17, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with Durham University, the Museum of London and the British Geological Survey has tentatively established that two skeletons found in a Roman-era grave in London are of Asian origin. ...
Archeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old human skeleton at the same Mediterranean shipwreck that yielded the most sophisticated piece of technology, a clockwork, to survive Antiquity, Nature reported Monday.
Archaeology
Sep 19, 2016
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New Zealand's kiwi may be one of the world's oddest birds – flightless, nocturnal, an enigmatic dirt digger with nostrils at the end of its long bill. But the national symbol also has a lot to tell the world about evolution ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2016
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