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Murders, Traffic Deaths Connected

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

If you want to know how many people are killed in car accidents in a particular U.S. state, look to its prisons. Regions with higher murder rates also tend to have a greater number of traffic fatalities, according to a new ...


War, genocide 'difficult knowledge' to teach younger students

War, genocide 'difficult knowledge' to teach younger students

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Whether they're found in a museum or a textbook, historical narratives about traumatic events such as war and genocide are better left to older students, who have typically developed a more refined historical ...


The mysterious death of an Australian scientist  during the height of the cold war has inspired a new website

Cold War-era mystery killings become online riddle

Technology / Internet

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A brilliant, married Australian scientist about to depart for a job with Bell Laboratories in the United States is found dead by a river with the wife of a Communist colleague.


Sociologist Says This Month's Family Murder-Suicides Only 'the Tip of the Iceberg'

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A family sociologist at the University at Buffalo says this month's murder-suicides involving a family of four in Ohio and a family of five in California may be "just the tip of the iceberg."


Oetzi's last days: Glacier man may have been attacked twice

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Another chapter in a murder case over 5000 years old. New investigations by an LMU research team working together with a Bolzano colleague reconstructed the chronology of the injuries that Oetzi, the glacier man preserved ...


Novel Forensic Technique To Be Applied To Decade-Old Murder Probe

Chemistry /

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(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.


Researchers Find Fingerprints in Murder Case

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(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.