Word: materiallize
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The pivotal evidence was the same in both cases: results from a new forensic test, known as DNA, or genetic, "fingerprinting," which can specifically match a suspect to genetic material in blood, hair or semen left at the scene of a crime. Hailed as the single greatest forensic breakthrough since...
Older biochemical tools, which have progressed from simple blood typing to analyzing specific enzymes and proteins, are crude by comparison. With the best combination of such methods, the chance of making a matching error is one in 1,000. DNA, however, is unique for each individual, and a matchup between...
In the catalog of previously concealed horrors, one of the worst records was compiled by the Hanford facility. Documents secured in the past three years by a Spokane environmental group under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that between 1944 and 1956, a startling 530,000 curies, a measure of...
Core offerings are often appropriate for someone learning the material--and how to look at it--for the first time. But some students come to the Core already comfortable with certain disciplines. Rather than forcing them to learn the basics over again, they could be allowed to take a higher...
Officials at the Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore research centers, for their part, flatly denied that any unauthorized visitors have had access to classified material and insisted that their security is reliable.