Life
The acid test: Can you dissolve a body completely?
Think you can dissolve a body in an acid bath, Breaking Bad-style, and get away with it? Think again, says forensic scientist Erwin Vermeij
Features
Technology
Murder by hackable implants no longer a perfect crime
News
Technology
Phone thwarts thieves by learning its owner’s habits
News
Technology
To defeat trolls, we need to do more than jail them
Opinion
Technology
Chicago uses big data to save itself from urban ills
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Space
World’s first space detective agency launched
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Life
Forensics is stranger than fiction, says crime writer
Opinion
Some inmates should have the right to euthanasia
Opinion
Technology
Video chat in US jail shelved over concerns for inmates
News
Just obeying orders? Rethinking obedience and atrocity
Ordinary people can commit atrocities simply by following orders, iconic 1960s experiments concluded – but this notion of the "banality of evil" is wrong
Opinion
Socrates among the psychopaths
Culture
Technology
Use of ‘language of deceit’ betrays scientific fraud
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Life
Your death microbiome could catch your killer
News
Technology
Ferguson protests spark calls for cops to wear cameras
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