http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Two researchers from the University of Salamanca have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal, published this month in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, makes it possible to reconstruct a crime scene in 3D. http://www.physorg.com/news178896884.html Technology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:50:02 EST news178896884 (AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion. http://www.physorg.com/news178653917.html Technology Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:06:14 EST news178653917 Whistleblower website Wikileaks began publishing on Wednesday what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. http://www.physorg.com/news178383122.html Technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:52:47 EST news178383122 A police officer who works the night shift, typically from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., already is at a disadvantage when it comes to getting a good "night's" sleep. http://www.physorg.com/news177694343.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:10:01 EST news177694343 (AP) -- When two Visalia, Calif., police officers swung their cruisers behind a sport utility vehicle that had been carjacked at gunpoint early Sunday, they prepared for a dangerous high-speed chase. http://www.physorg.com/news175256864.html Technology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:28:18 EST news175256864 (AP) -- A nuclear physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to the Algerian branch of al-Qaida, another blow to a project that has been plagued by glitches and was shut down after a massive electrical failure a year ago. http://www.physorg.com/news174308577.html Other Sciences Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:03:32 EST news174308577 Criminals are having a harder time hiding their faces, thanks to new software that helps witnesses recreate and recognize suspects using principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics. http://www.physorg.com/news173973620.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:01:05 EST news173973620 (PhysOrg.com) -- What do hide-and-seek, police searches and video games such as Half-Life 2 have in common? More than you would think, say two University of Alberta researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news170688175.html Other Sciences Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:24:08 EST news170688175 While rescue crews intensify their search for a Chicago doctoral student missing in a remote region of Costa Rica, help is coming from an unlikely army of online supporters from around the globe. http://www.physorg.com/news170615994.html Technology Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:10:01 EST news170615994 (AP) -- A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with infecting more than 3,000 computers around the world with a virus designed to capture banking and credit card data, police said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news169377357.html Technology Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:16:39 EST news169377357 An emergency call center in the basement of the county jail in Waterloo, Iowa, became the first in the country to accept text messages sent to "911," starting Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news168702767.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:53:26 EST news168702767 (AP) -- Hackers extracted lists of files from computers that they contaminated with the virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and South Korea, police in Seoul said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news166768093.html Technology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:28:41 EST news166768093 It is well documented that police officers have a higher risk of developing heart disease: The question is why. http://www.physorg.com/news165578420.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:00:45 EST news165578420 The new technology - being designed by Newcastle, Manchester Metropolitan and Queen Mary universities - uses electro magnetic waves in order to pick up 'reflections' from concealed guns, gun barrels or knives without the need to be close to the person. http://www.physorg.com/news163773086.html Technology Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:31:53 EST news163773086 (AP) -- The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire incident that left a cop dead last week. http://www.physorg.com/news163473921.html Technology Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:26:34 EST news163473921 (PhysOrg.com) -- When a crime has been committed, the usual modus operandi for police detectives and their fictional counterparts has been to dust the scene for fingerprints. And once they have a suspect in custody, out comes the polygraph, or lie detector. http://www.physorg.com/news163156190.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:10:10 EST news163156190 The long arm of the law finally caught up with a New Zealand fugitive whose 105 days on the run inspired a Facebook fansite, a song and a line of tee shirts. http://www.physorg.com/news162627573.html Technology Wed, 27 May 2009 07:20:01 EST news162627573 Dr. Jared Strote at the University of Washington Medical Center led a group that examined the medical records of nearly 900 patients subdued by the Seattle Police Department with a Taser over a six-year period. Less than one percent required hospital admission for an injury related to the restraint incident. No deaths occurred, even when patients exhibited signs of excited delirium. http://www.physorg.com/news161750228.html Medicine & Health Sun, 17 May 2009 03:37:37 EST news161750228 When state police Sgt. Stephen Jones wanted to track down a car involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Hackensack, he decided a Twitter update -- or a "tweet" -- would be the fastest way to reach the public. http://www.physorg.com/news160906949.html Technology Thu, 07 May 2009 09:23:41 EST news160906949 (PhysOrg.com) -- New York City has a goal to reduce its overall carbon footprint. For Manhattan, the goal is to reduce greenhouse gases 30% by 2017. As part of this effort, the New York City Police Department just added 40 hybrid cars to its fleet. The Nissan Altima Hybrids are the first NYPD alternative fuel patrol cars, but they probably won't be the last. The NYPD plans to deploy at least 100 hybrids in total this year. http://www.physorg.com/news160734148.html Technology Tue, 05 May 2009 09:22:58 EST news160734148 The creators of the EFIT-V forensic facial composite software describe how it works and recent successes with police services in the UK in the current issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. http://www.physorg.com/news160387592.html Technology Fri, 01 May 2009 09:06:57 EST news160387592 (AP) -- When Milwaukee police wanted to get word of a murder out quickly, they did it in 113 characters on Twitter. http://www.physorg.com/news158856809.html Technology Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:54:08 EST news158856809 In the midst of life-threatening situations requiring split-second decisions, police officers with a higher ability to multitask are less likely to shoot unarmed persons when feeling threatened during video simulations, a new Georgia State University study suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news157636804.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:00:27 EST news157636804 (AP) -- Minutes after Neel Manglik illegally turned right on a red light in the Des Moines suburb of Clive, a video popped up on a computer at an office park outside Scottsdale, Ariz. http://www.physorg.com/news156180514.html Technology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:29:05 EST news156180514 Exposure to critical incidents, workplace discrimination, lack of cooperation among coworkers, and job dissatisfaction correlated significantly with perceived work stress among urban police officers, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Work stress was significantly associated with adverse outcomes, including depression and intimate partner abuse. The paper, "Mental, Physical, and Behavioral Outcomes Associated with Perceived Work Stress in Police Officers" is published in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice and Behavior. http://www.physorg.com/news156090939.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:38:43 EST news156090939 When male police officers need to de-stress, they might trade war stories -- but likely not with their female colleagues. http://www.physorg.com/news154869522.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:19:04 EST news154869522 Pasadena, CA -February 18, 2009 -"Suicide by Cop" (SBC) is a suicide method in which a person engages in actual or apparent danger to others in an attempt to get oneself killed or injured by law enforcement. A new study in the Journal of Forensic Sciences examined the prevalence of this phenomenon among a large sample of officer-involved shootings. http://www.physorg.com/news154192567.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:16:20 EST news154192567 (PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering forensic scientist at Northamptonshire Police and the University of Leicester is being called on by US force officers to tackle a decade-old murder case. http://www.physorg.com/news151228343.html Chemistry Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:52:23 EST news151228343 Excessive police violence is evident in the types of injury and trauma emergency care doctors are treating in the US, indicates research published in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://www.physorg.com/news149311183.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:19:43 EST news149311183 (PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering forensic scientist at Northamptonshire Police and the University of Leicester has helped detectives move a step closer to solving a murder case. http://www.physorg.com/news147955845.html Other Sciences Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:50:45 EST news147955845