In a new study, researchers have shown that viewing, feeling, and touching real dogs leads to increasingly higher levels of activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain.
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Police in the U.S. deal with more diverse, distressed and aggrieved populations and are involved in more incidents involving firearms, but they average only five months of classroom training—the briefest among 18 countries examined in a Rutgers study.
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Forty-eight hours after release, amid accusations of racism, the image was removed from the media release as well as social media sites, and the officer in charge of the sexual assault section apologized.
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A new partnership is empowering forensic science students to seek out mentors and learn what a career in forensic science could look like for them.
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Ross runs the North Carolina Human Identification & Forensics Analysis Laboratory, which contracts with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for forensic anthropological casework statewide.
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Rescue Biomedical has received a grant to develop its technology that detects when a person is overdosing on an opioid and delivers naloxone to reverse the action.
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The New Zealand Police were recently found to have been routinely and illegally photographing young people and adults in public. Many might have expected this to see an end to the practice – but apparently not.
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Measuring THC, the active compound in marijuana that leads to a high, is much different than, for example, the level of ethanol that is measured with a traditional alcohol breathalyzer.
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Intermountain Forensics has announced the formation of a dedicated satellite lab for forensic investigative genetic genealogy laboratory processing with partner Astrea Forensics.
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In April 2019, while conducting a natural death investigation in Mississippi, detectives with the Biloxi Police Department were made aware of a human foot located in a bucket on the property of the recently deceased individual.
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