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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Investigators in Iowa used genealogical data to link the 1982 fatal stabbing of a woman to an Illinois trucker who was found shot to death in a shallow grave months later.
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Metabolomic analysis of postmortem blood reveals biomarkers that can be used to diagnose diabetes mellitus, enabling accurate forensic diagnosis.
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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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A clay reconstruction of the homicide victim's face was developed and released to the public by the end of 1980, but yielded no clues as to who this unknown man was.
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Researchers are developing ways to detect a range of drugs and other substances commonly found in the suspicious death of humans and animals.
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Tattoos, electric shock devices, and plastic bracelets. These are examples of the kinds of objects and physical abuses deployed by human traffickers to control, torture, and brand their victims, and which are crucial to securing a conviction.
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