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Spatula to poison darts, Malaysia

Poisons, plants and Palaeolithic hunters

21 Mar 2015

Dozens of common plants are toxic. Archaeologists have long suspected that our Palaeolithic ancestors used plant poisons to make their hunting...

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in the shadows

Investigating child abuse: how interview training really matters

05 Apr 2013

Gathering evidence from children about alleged sex abuse is problematic. Research shows that when interviewers are trained in a protocol that favours...

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Ear

Can a voice identify a criminal?

01 Sep 2007

Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification...

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