‘Missing Missing’ and Serial Killers
The most common victims of serial killers may be much more numerous than experts generally believe.
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Gridiron Violence Off the Field
High school football players and wrestlers are far more likely to get into violent altercations than their non-athletic classmates, according to a new finding.
Academic Coverage of Sports and Steroids
More than 20 years of published articles on performance-enhancing drugs have ranged from identifying the damage the drugs have on the individual to the damage they have on society as a whole.
Sprawl Increasing After All
Urban sprawl continues to increase. More and more land is being developed on the edges of wilderness or agricultural areas, affecting quality-of-life issues.
How Climate Change Will Affect What We Wear
While scientists monitor how our clothing affects the climate, trend-watchers are more interested in the reverse: how climate change is beginning to alter our apparel. Bamboo underwear, anyone?
Bullying: A Junior Hate Crime?
Serious research into juvenile bullying increasingly focuses on ways to curb what appears to many as an inevitable feature of the schoolyard.
This Is Your Brain on Violence
Research using brain-scanning technology finds that images of violence stimulate specific responses in the human brain that do not occur in reaction to other types of imagery.
International Adoptions Struggle for Hollywood Endings
Hollywood stars have made international child adoptions trendy in recent years, but countries have been striving to make practice safer.
AMBER Alerts Largely Ineffective, Study Shows
The touted AMBER Alert system is so inherently flawed it amounts to little more than "crime-control theater," according to a new report by researchers at the University of Nevada–Reno.