Fingers and toes become wrinkled after being in water for long periods, and now new research explains why. The transformed skin improves our grip on wet objects.Aside from answering why we get the wrinklies after bathing, swimming and hand-washing dishes,
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Thirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral. They believed children were locked in the concrete here and now—unable to understand cause and effect, imagi
Continue reading >>The validity of the main forensic evidence, microscopic amounts of DNA on the murder weapon and on a bra clasp, was thrown into doubt.
Continue reading >>If you were to imagine the type of person who would kill a woman and her young son, torch his own house, and then kidnap the woman’s teenage daughter, you’d probably picture a hulking, tattooed ex-convict or a shaggy-bearded antisocial misfit with a crazy
Continue reading >>Hand prints, or even partial hand prints can reveal the gender and height of a person. - The step in forensic analysis could help in identifying a suspect.
Continue reading >>Two million years ago in South Africa, part-human and part-ape-like individuals existed -- and now we know what they looked like and how they behaved: They had a primitive, pigeon-toed gait, human-like front teeth, ate mostly veggies and spent a lot of ti
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