Two New Sandia "Sniffers" Expand Law Enforcement Abilities To Detect Explosives And Narcotics (December 3, 1999) -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have developed a hand-carried gadget that, like a trained police dog, could sniff out the vanishingly faint odors of drugs and ... > full story

New Technology Keeps Evidence Close To The Vest (May 22, 1998) -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are teaming with Mnemonic Systems Inc. on an interactive system that will enable law enforcement personnel to quickly ... > full story

Device Puts A New Spin On Gathering Evidence (May 17, 2001) -- Usually, getting sucked into a vortex signals the death of a good idea. But two Michigan State University professors are hoping a giant sucking sound will signal a revolution in gathering crime ... > full story

Making The Crime Scene Blink: NIJ Asks Sandia To Develop Portable Evidence Finder (October 22, 1997) -- An evidence detection system that makes organicsubstances appear to blink, allows investigators tolocate potential evidence like fingerprints, semenand urine more quickly and in a lighted room if ... > full story

Sandia Scientists Are Developing A Portable Evidence Finder That Makes Organic Substances Appear To Blink In Fluorescent Colors (December 3, 1997) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing an evidence-detection system that would -- with the aid of a flashing lamp and a pair of modified 3-D video game goggles -- make organic ... > full story

Intruder Alert: Method Provides Double Computer Crime-Solving Evidence (November 30, 2004) -- Like an episode of "CSI: Computers," a UF researcher has developed a technique that gives digital detectives twice the forensic evidence they now have to catch all kinds of hackers, from curious ... > full story

Using Telltale Toolmarks To Fight Crime (April 14, 2004) -- Law enforcement has a new tool to help bring criminals to justice, thanks to research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames ... > full story

Research Casts Doubt On Voice-stress Lie Detection Technology (February 11, 2004) -- Despite its booming popularity, a number of federally sponsored studies have found little or no scientific evidence to support the notion that existing voice-stress technologies are capable of ... > full story

Sandia BROOM Tool Can Help Restore Facilities Following Release Of Biological Warfare Agents (May 9, 2005) -- Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a software-based tool called BROOM -- short for Building Restoration Operations Optimization Model -- to assist in the gathering of samples ... > full story

New Technique Gets The Red Out Of Digital Photographs (January 22, 2003) -- It's an all-too-common experience - the perfect photograph ruined by the demonic glow of the "red-eye" effect. Now, a researcher at the University of Toronto has developed a method that can ... > full story

Forensics -- Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to the legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or to a ... > full article

Scanning electron microscope -- The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron microscope capable of producing high resolution images of a sample surface. Due to the manner in which the image is created, SEM images ... > full article

Correlation -- In probability theory and statistics, correlation, also called correlation coefficient, indicates the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two random variables. In general ... > full article

Confocal laser scanning microscopy -- Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM or LSCM) is a valuable tool for obtaining high resolution images and 3-D reconstructions. The key feature of confocal microscopy is its ability to produce ... > full article

Electron microscope -- The electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses electrons to create an image of the target. It has much higher magnification or resolving power than a normal light microscope. Although ... > full article

Robot calibration -- Robot calibration is the process of identifying the real geometrical parameters in the kinematic structure of an industrial robot, i.e., the relative position and orientation of links and joints in ... > full article

Biosensor -- A biosensor is a device for the detection of an analyte that combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector ... > full article

Spectroscopy -- Spectroscopy is the study of spectra, that is, the dependence of physical quantities on frequency. Spectroscopy is often used in physical and analytical chemistry for the identification of ... > full article

Nanorobotics -- Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometre (10^-9 metres). More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the still largely theoretical ... > full article

Mass spectrometry -- Mass spectrometry is an analytical technique used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. It is most generally used to find the composition of a physical sample by generating a mass spectrum ... > full article

Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, & Biologicals
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The Stretch Deck: 50 Stretches
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Horizons : Exploring the Universe (with TheSky CD-ROM, AceAstronomy, and Virtual Astronomy Labs)
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set
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Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary (14th Edition)
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
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Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing, Fourth Edition
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Gen-e-sis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
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Brain Tumors: Leaving the Garden of Eden--A Survival Guide to Diagnosis, Learning the Basics, Getting Organized, and Finding Your Medical Team
A guidebook for the 150,000+ people/ year and families affected by brain tumors. This book will help you learn the basics about diagnosis, getting organized and finding your medical team. Included ... > read more