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May 16, 2024
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Apr. 24, 2024 A new way of quickly distinguishing between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth tusk ivory could prove critical to fighting the illegal ivory trade. A laser-based approach could be used by customs worldwide to aid in the enforcement of illegal ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Accurate 'time of death' estimates are a mainstay of murder mysteries and forensic programs, but such calculations in the real world are often complex and imprecise. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have discovered a group of common ...
Dec. 12, 2023 Much of the discussion around implementing artificial intelligence systems focuses on whether an AI application is 'trustworthy': Does it produce useful, reliable results, free of bias, while ensuring data privacy? But a new article poses a ...
Nov. 21, 2023 Scientists demonstrate how bloodstains can yield valuable details by examining the protrusions that deviate from the boundaries of otherwise elliptical bloodstains. The researchers studied how these ...
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Mar. 14, 2024 Research has found a less expensive and easier to use test to learn more about forensic touch DNA. This research has important implications for forensic investigations and being able to identify DNA ...
Feb. 15, 2024 New research shows that background checks for employment, housing and more can be highly ...
Oct. 30, 2023 Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to ...
Oct. 16, 2023 Forensic fibers can survive underwater for much longer than previously thought -- which could help criminal investigators uncover vital evidence. New research has found that fiber evidence can ...
Sep. 27, 2023 Protecting large swaths of Earth's land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss -- especially when those protected areas are in less disturbed landscapes and in countries with effective national ...
Oct. 2, 2023 If forensic experts have access to a suspect's gun, they can compare the microscopic markings from discarded shell casings with those found at a crime scene. Finding and reporting a mismatch can help ...
Aug. 30, 2023 A new economic analysis has linked, for the first time, conduct problems among kindergarten students with significant costs to society in terms of crime and associated medical expenses and lost ...
Aug. 22, 2023 It's human nature to be judgmental. But why do we place less blame on someone, or give more praise, if we find out that person had a history of suffering in childhood? In a recent study, researchers ...
Aug. 10, 2023 Legal restrictions placed on the amount of time young people in China can play video games may be less effective than originally thought, a new study has ...
Aug. 8, 2023 Current efforts to protect and restore native biodiversity is being threatened by difficulties in identifying wild and domestic cats, and ...
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Apr. 3, 2024 A new study looks at 110 years of income tax history across the U.S. and notes out-migration by wealthy ...
Apr. 1, 2024 New study findings suggest that shortening overnight operations by seven hours at bars and taverns in a Baltimore, Md. neighborhood resulted in a 51 percent immediate drop in homicides within the ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Contrary to some claims, laws that criminalize or otherwise punish drug use during pregnancy are more likely to worsen rather than improve health outcomes. The study is the first to systematically ...
Nov. 13, 2023 Researchers have examined 1.2 million criminal incidents and developed an innovative method to identify patterns in criminal ...
Aug. 1, 2023 An evaluation of 17 previously published studies suggests that exposure to lead in the womb or in childhood is associated with an increased risk of engaging in criminal behavior in adulthood -- but ...
July 28, 2023 Four decades of conservation spending totaling more than $9 billion in inflation-adjusted tax dollars has failed to improve stocks of wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River ...
July 10, 2023 Indonesia, home to the largest tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia and over 17,500 islands, is a country packed with biodiversity and endangered species. However, scientists studying the ...
July 6, 2023 Discoveries by forensic scientists about how gunshot residue behaves on skin, hair and fabric will allow crime scene investigators to catch up to the proliferation of new, eco-friendly types of ...
May 25, 2023 As robots assume more roles in the world, a new analysis reviewed research on robot rights, concluding that granting rights to robots is a bad idea. Instead, the article looks to Confucianism to ...
Apr. 3, 2023 It is possible to retrieve forensically relevant information from human DNA in household ...
Mar. 21, 2023 Research in languages other than English is critically important for biodiversity conservation and is shockingly under-utilized internationally, according to an international research ...
Feb. 1, 2023 Researchers have developed and repeatedly tested a procedure that captures more information from eyewitnesses and improves the accuracy of lineups in police ...
Nov. 7, 2022 The forensic-voice-comparison system, based on state-of-the-art automatic-speaker-recognition technology, outperformed all the ...
Oct. 31, 2022 The researchers suggest that mass school shootings are different from other forms of mass murder, and that they should be looked at as a distinct phenomenon. Factors other than severe mental illness ...
Oct. 19, 2022 Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia, is plagued by political and economic crises. The fall of a president, a military putsch and the crackdown on religious minorities have had an impact not only on ...
Oct. 13, 2022 Watch any episode of 'CSI,' and a character will use forensic DNA profiling to identify a criminal. A new study suggests that these forensic profiles may indirectly reveal medical ...
Oct. 12, 2022 Maintaining green parks and gardens in cities has the potential to lower the risk of crime, research suggests. More green space in a city is linked with lower risk of crime against property -- such ...
Sep. 29, 2022 In 2016, North Carolina enacted legislation providing legal protections to people who make use of programs designed to reduce harms associated with illegal drug use. However, a new study finds these ...
Sep. 21, 2022 Forensic dramas on TV make it seem easy to determine when fingerprints were left at the scene of a crime. In reality, the oils in fingerprints degrade over time, and it's difficult to figure out ...
Sep. 20, 2022 A new study has found that the average rate of assaults with firearms increased an average of 9.5 percent relative to forecasted trends in the first 10 years after 34 states relaxed restrictions on ...
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