This world-leading Aussie researcher, expert legal witness and media commentator is forging new frontiers in forensic science ...

Despite Nepal’s rich biodiversity and ecosystem services, the country generates limited revenue from biodiversity ...

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The research discovered that even short contact between pets and people of interest, including potential offenders, leave detectable traces of human DNA on pets. It also found cats and dogs carry and ...

The compound eyes of the humble fruit fly are a marvel of nature. They are wide-angle and can process visual information ...

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In March 1853, Maria Van Dusen Hendrickson died suddenly in Bethlehem, New York. The cause was later revealed to be poisoning with tincture of aconite, a deadly plant extract known as monkshood.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Mary Ellen O'Toole, a former FBI senior profiler and professor of forensic science, about the ...

have created a new type of insect cyborg that can navigate autonomously -- without wires, surgery, or stress-inducing electrical shocks. The system uses a small ultraviolet (UV) light helmet to steer ...

The modern poison has become less a medieval cliché than a geopolitical signature flourish.

A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in South Africa by citizen scientists who posted photographs of it online. The moth ...