Research from North Carolina State University offers a new means of determining the sex of skeletal human remains - an advance that may have significant impacts in the wake of disasters, the studying of ancient remains and ...
Archaeology
Jul 6, 2010
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Decaying corpses are usually the domain of forensic scientists, but palaeontologists have discovered that studying rotting fish sheds new light on our earliest ancestry.
Archaeology
Jan 31, 2010
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Israeli scientists have developed new technology to fight biological identity theft after realising that DNA evidence found at crime scenes can be easily falsified.
Biotechnology
Aug 20, 2009
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A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the latest issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 30, 2009
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Researchers have published a new study in Information Fusion that demonstrates an improvement in the identification of human remains using craniofacial superimposition, making decision-making by forensic experts much more ...
Other
Jul 18, 2024
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Forensic and environmental experts have teamed up to develop a new scientific method to pinpoint microplastic pollution 'hotspots' in open waters. A study by Staffordshire University, The Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, ...
Environment
Apr 10, 2024
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Occasionally, police investigators find themselves announcing archaeological discoveries, rather than criminal findings. In 1984, for example, police oversaw the recovery of the Iron Age bog body (a naturally mummified corpse ...
Archaeology
Feb 26, 2024
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Jennifer L. Mnookin, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and one of the most cited evidence law scholars in the nation, this week authored an editorial in the journal Science calling for a national commission ...
Other
Nov 17, 2023
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An airborne fraction of soil, or dust, contains biological and chemical "signatures" that act as a fingerprint to a specific location. Australian forensic science experts, led by Flinders University, have highlighted the ...
Biotechnology
Nov 14, 2023
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Forensic fibers can survive underwater for much longer than previously thought—which could help criminal investigators uncover vital evidence.
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 16, 2023
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