Above-ground nuclear testing was considered a pretty bad idea, which is why it was banned so quickly. Johnstone-Belford says the accidental by-product for scientists is one good thing that's come out of it.
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The UW’s Center for Environmental Forensic Science will work globally to help stop poaching of endangered wildlife species, including elephants.
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The latest effort to address a shortage of forensic pathologists in Washington has stalled, even though the national shortage is getting worse, forcing some states to appeal to the federal government for help.
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After more than three years of painstaking investigative genetic genealogy into very distant DNA matches, DDP volunteers were able to narrow down the Doe’s family to the descendants of a couple in Indiana who had migrated to the Seattle area.
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With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl driving record overdose deaths, the scourge of opioids awaits after the COVID-19 pandemic finally recedes, a shift that public health experts expect in the months ahead.
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American Indians are disproportionately affected by the crisis of unidentified decedents; there are more than 4.5 times more missing American Indians reported than human remains that have been found and estimated to be American Indians.
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Governor Ned Lamont announced he will introduce a comprehensive package of legislative proposals aimed at eliminating gun violence in Connecticut through a series of targeted initiatives.
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Scientists at the FAPAB Research Center in Italy have unveiled the forensic facial reconstruction of a young woman who lived in Thebes, Egypt in the early 26th dynasty.
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A batch of cocaine that has killed at least 23 people in Argentina appears to have been laced with a synthetic opioid, and police are scrambling to get as much of it off the streets as they can.
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As of Friday, 217 bodies were awaiting examinations by the state’s forensic pathologists, but Weedn said that number could surpass 300 in less than two weeks.
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