Study highlights need to replace ‘ancestry’ in forensics with something more accurate
Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in ...
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Study model explores impact of police action on population health
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Cincinnati children’s awarded grant to develop AI system for preventing school violence
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists at Cincinnati Children's have been awarded a five-year grant totaling $2.8 million from the ...
Most Californians unaware of law to prevent gun violence but would support using it
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Solving a double murder arouses international interest
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Ventilation in buildings: where water sanitation was in the 1800s
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It is time to create contracts all users can understand
New research presents a novel four-step user-centered contract design processCredit: Kevin Finnegan Contracts today are complex and not user-friendly. The ...
An uncrackable combination of invisible ink and artificial intelligence
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c01179 Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only ...
Illuminating invisible bloody fingerprints with a fluorescent polymer
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c00710 Careful criminals usually clean a scene, wiping away visible ...
Forensics puzzle cracked via fluid mechanical principles
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Reversal of blood droplet flight predicted, captured in experiments
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Scientists put the stopwatch on cannabis intoxication
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Using conservation criminology to understand restaurant’s role in urban wild meat trade
Restaurants in Central African urban areas are key drivers in keeping protected wildlife on the menuCredit: WCS KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ...
Expanding understanding of the relationship between criminal insanity and psychosis
How and why does psychosis play a role when defining someone as criminally insane and lacking capacity for responsible action? ...
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