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Probing Question: Is forensic science on TV accurate?

Probing Question: Is forensic science on TV accurate?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Turn on the television any evening and you're apt to see a scene such as this: Five crime scene investigators, or CSIs, return to the crime scene at night to follow up on some leads. CSI Kathryn Willows looks ...


Taiwan says no to Tiger Woods-style animated news (AP)

Taiwan says no to Tiger Woods-style animated news

Technology / Business

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Taiwanese regulators have turned down an application for a television license from a Hong Kong company whose local affiliate conquered the Internet earlier this month with a fanciful video of golf ...


Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image

Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...





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'Happy housewife' myth debunked by new book

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many believe that 1950s cinema portrayed women as complacent, conservative housewives who liked nothing better than to rustle up a three-course meal for their hardworking husbands, but a new book has shown ...


Australian government to introduce Internet filter (AP)

Australian government to introduce Internet filter

Technology / Internet

created 17 hours ago | popularity 3.1 / 5 (15) | comments 8

(AP) -- Australia plans to introduce an Internet filtering system to block obscene and crime-linked Web sites despite concerns it will curtail freedoms and won't completely work.


Whose Tattoo Is It Anyway?

Whose Tattoo Is It Anyway?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An infra-red digital camera could be a crucial tool in the fight against crime when trying to identify suspects by their tattoos, according to new University of Derby research.


US and Russian officials have different interpretations of the talks

US, Russia begin talks on cyberspace security: report

Technology / Internet

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The United States has begun talks with Russia and a UN arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace, The New York Times reported.


The 'sci' behind the 'fi'

The 'sci' behind the 'fi'

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

As the voyagers of the Starship Enterprise boldly went to explore new worlds week after week on Star Trek, they used a host of futuristic technologies — including tricorders, holodecks, teleportation systems ...


Doctors advised to curtail antibiotic dosages

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It's a common scene: Mom brings aching child with some bug to the doctor's office, expecting the doctor to do, well, something.


Mechanism discovered by which body's cells encourage tuberculosis infection

Mechanism discovered by which body's cells encourage tuberculosis infection

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered a signaling pathway that tuberculosis bacteria use to coerce disease-fighting cells to switch allegiance and work on their behalf. Epithelial cells line the airways and other surfaces ...


Research finds the mum-bub bond may reduce neglect

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ researcher Dr Lane Strathearn sees strengthening the bond between mother and baby as a possible way of reducing childhood neglect.


Debunking fears: Latino growth does not boost crime

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Rural industries, such as meat-packing and textile manufacturing, create job opportunities that have brought significant numbers of Latino workers and their families to small- and medium-sized towns. This influx of Latino ...


Augmented reality systems appearing in Japanese shopping malls

Augmented reality systems appearing in Japanese shopping malls

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Augmented reality (AR) systems are being developed for real applications in store windows and shopping malls in Japan.



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