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Fingerprint find in decade-old double murder probe

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A decade old US double murder probe has received a new breakthrough following investigations by a University of Leicester forensic scientist at Northamptonshire Police.





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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.


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

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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.


Yeast in a shell: Coating individual living yeast cells with silicon dioxide

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our breakfast egg is a peculiarity of nature: a single cell protected by a thin mineral layer. Apart from a number of tiny radiolaria and diatoms, individual cells normally do not have a hard shell. Korean ...


New testing facility helps researchers improve land mine detection equipment

New testing facility helps researchers improve land mine detection equipment

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a test facility to evaluate and enhance sensors designed to detect buried land mines. The unique automated system measures the response of individual ...


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Scientists confirm crab's memory of pain

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

New research published by a Queen’s University Belfast academic has shown that crabs not only suffer pain but that they retain a memory of it.


Microwave Meter Measures Moisture and Density of In-Shell Peanuts

Microwave Meter Measures Moisture and Density of In-Shell Peanuts

Biology / Other

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A microwave meter that instantaneously measures both moisture and density of in-shell peanuts has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, making it easier and faster ...


New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...


'The world's oldest manufactured beads' are older than previously thought

'The world's oldest manufactured beads' are older than previously thought

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists has uncovered some of the world’s earliest shell ornaments in a limestone cave in Eastern Morocco. The researchers have found 47 examples of Nassarius marine shells, ...


Tool use in an invertebrate: The coconut-carrying octopus

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists once thought of tool use as a defining feature of humans. That's until examples of tool use came in from other primates, along with birds and an array of other mammals. Now, a report in the December 14th issue ...


Solving a subatomic shell game: Physicists decode hidden properties of the rare Earths

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Physicists at Michigan Technological University have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths.



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