The primary purpose of the three-year award is to probe the pristine conditions hypothesis, which suggests that high-confidence witness identifications will be "remarkably accurate" when identification procedures are optimal.
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Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute have taken a major step toward mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans: a single genealogy that traces the ancestry of all of us.
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The Spanish archeologist who helped piece together possibly the earliest case of murder in human history has published another study that demonstrates evidence of nine additional murders in the same location.
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To avoid any further headlines that read “forensic lab under investigation,” forensic scientist and consultant Brian Gestring suggests taking cues from the transportation industry, specifically cars and aviation.
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Initially, the remains were identified as belonging to a female but later analysis revealed the remains belong to an older male.
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The targeted forensics tool under development will not be used in any way for tracking people. Rather, it will be a tool for collecting evidence to be used in court obtained from phones voluntarily provided to law enforcement by witnesses.
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New Mexico is allowing broad access to test strips that can detect the presence of the potent opiate fentanyl and potentially help avoid deadly overdoses, under legislation signed Monday.
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The aim of our recent review was to bring together different areas of psychology to identify potential sources of bias that may influence how jurors make decisions.
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In a first-of-its-kind arrest, a man in the UK has been convicted and jailed for domestic violence and failure to adhere to a non-molestation order after the victim sprayed him with SmartTag, a unique forensic liquid UK police have been piloting.
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In August 1980, a bulldozer operator working at the West Side Landfill in Larksville, PA came across what he believed to be a doll. After closer inspection he realized it was a newborn boy.
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