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Forensics database set up in Perth

Researchers in Perth are building a database of skeletons to help identify bodies more quickly and accurately.
The University of Western Australia has been given a $400,000 grant for the project, which involves mapping the shape and co-ordinates of bones.
Assistant Professor Daniel Franklin has told WA’s Stateline program, police will then use the database to identify [...]

Golf ball fractures taxi passenger’s skull

Victoria Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was hit in the temple by a golf ball through the open window of her taxi.
Natasha Cossell, 38, of Sanctuary Lakes, south-east of Melbourne, was coming home from a night in the city when the incident happened.
The force of the impact fractured her skull and she [...]

New Hampshire Man Beat Landlord to Death for Motorcycle, Police Say

BRENTWOOD, N.H. — Prosecutors say a New Hampshire man obsessed with getting a Harley-Davidson motorcycle beat his landlord to death, assumed his identify and stole his pickup truck so he could trade it for the bike.
The attorney for defendant Paul McDonald doesn’t dispute her client killed Richard Wilcox. But she says he did it [...]

No extra time in jail for teens who attacked Indians: Oz court

MELBOURNE: Two teenage brothers, who spent less than a year in youth detention for a brutal racial attack on a group of Indians which left one of the victims with permanent brain injuries, will not spend any further time in custody, an Australian court ruled on Wednesday.
Victorian county court judge Christine Thornton said the 12-month [...]

Australian court favours release of teenage duo who attacked Indians

MELBOURNE: An Australian court today favoured release of two teenage brothers, who spent less than a year in youth detention for racially assaulting a group of Indians, even as it termed the attack which left one of the victims with permanent brain injuries as “extraordinarily grave”.
Victorian County Court judge Christine Thornton said that because the [...]

Massa to have titanium plate surgery on his skull

London, Sep.8 (ANI): Ferrari driver Felipe Massa will have a titanium plate surgically inserted in his head to ensure he is fit to return to Formula One next year.

Massa said the titanium-infused plate was necessary to protect a weak spot caused by the initial surgery [...]

Non-lethal blast waves can cause brain injuries even without direct head impacts

Washington, August 27 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have discovered that non-lethal blast waves can cause human brain injury even without direct head impacts, which could lead to an enhanced understanding of head injuries and improved military helmet design.

Using numerical hydrodynamic computer simulations, Lawrence Livermore scientists Willy Moss and Michael King, along with University [...]

Half of drinkers “unaware of sleep problems”: UK study

London, Aug 20 (ANI): A new British government poll has revealed that most people do not know that drinking too much of liquor affects a good night’s sleep.

In a government-funded survey, conducted by YouGov, half of 2,000 drinkers reported fatigue the day after drinking more than the recommended daily limit.

And 58 percent of them [...]

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CT scans deepen murder mystery of 1,700-year-old mummy

London, July 10 (ANI): The murder mystery of a 1,700-year-old Graeco-Roman mummy has deepened, with CT scans revealing that a ‘metallic’ object stuck in its neck is in fact one of three or four fragments lodged in the base of the skull.

According to a report by Sky News, the 1,700-year-old mummy was scanned along with [...]

Earliest land vertebrates were more diverse than earlier believed

Washington, July 7 (ANI): A new study of ancient fossils has determined that the earliest land vertebrates, also known as tetrapods, were more diverse than we could possibly imagine.

The study was done by Jennifer Clack, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge, who has studied the fossils of these extinct creatures for more than [...]

Primates evolved larger brains to hop between trees

Washington, July 1 (ANI): A new study, in which scientists scanned a 54-million-year-old skull roughly the size of a walnut, has suggested that primates such as lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans might have evolved larger brains as a result of the need to move quickly from tree to tree.

According to a report in National Geographic [...]

Marilyn Manson fantasized killing Evan Rachel Wood after split

London, June 26 (ANI): Marilyn Manson has revealed that he fantasized killing Evan Rachel Wood after they broke up last year.

“I fantasised every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer,” The Daily Star quoted him as telling America’s Spin magazine.

The rock-star has also dedicated a violent track from his new album ‘The High [...]

Reinforcement begins at Peking Man site in China

New Delhi, June 25 (ANI): Reports indicate that reinforcement has begun at the Peking Man site in China to prevent one of its walls from collapsing.

‘Peking Man’ is referred to a group of fossil specimens, hundreds of thousands of years old, discovered in 1923-27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian near Beijing (at that time known as [...]

Marilyn Manson’s new album inspired by Evan Rachel Wood split

Washington, June 25 (ANI): Marilyn Manson has said that his new album ‘The High End Of Low’ is inspired by his break-up with Evan Rachel Wood.

The rocker said that he was depressed after the actress parted ways with him last year and wanted to tell her about it through the new album.

“This was intentional, this [...]

Social competition gave humans bigger brains, suggests study

Washington, June 23 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Missouri say that social competition is the major cause of a three-fold increase in the size of the human brain in the past two million years.

The researchers collected data from [...]

At least 100 human skulls, bones and skeletons found in Aligarh

Aligarh, May 24 (ANI): Panic prevailed at the Aligarh railway colony when at least 100 human skulls, several bones and two skeletons were recovered from a pond near the mortuary.

“Children while playing generally come here to get their ball. A child came here and saw a skull. He got scared and ran away. We then [...]

Jamie Lynn Spears’ boyfriend fit enough to be cousin’s best man

Washington, May 12 (ANI): American actress Jamie Lynn Spears’ boyfriend Casey Aldridge has recovered fully to play best man at his cousin’s wedding, just two weeks after he suffered brain trauma in a Louisiana car crash.

Aldridge, 20, had to be airlifted to a hospital last month, after he and two of his friends were thrown [...]

Sting’s daughter fractures skull in freak restaurant fall

London, May 4 (ANI): Brit musician Sting’s daughter Coco Sumner has fractured her skull in a freak restaurant fall.

The 18-year-old was dining with a friend when she said she was feeling ill, and when she tried to stand up, she collapsed and banged her head on a chair, reports the Sun.

Sting, 57, real name Gordon [...]

Forensic artist re-constructs face of first European

London, May 4 (ANI): A forensic artist has reconstructed the face of the first anatomically-modern human to live in Europe, who inhabited the ancient forests of the Carpathian Mountains in what is now Romania about 35,000 years ago.

According to a report in The Independent, the reconstruction by forensic artist Richard Neave, of a face that [...]